US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 1 for "Method for evaluating the surface of a body component, and method for training an artificial neural network" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,242, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for evaluating the surface of a body component, and method for training an artificial neural network" was invented by Philipp Craighero (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating the surface of a body component of a motor vehicle is provided. A virtual polygonal network of the surface is generated, at least one variable which characterizes a curvature of the polygonal network at at least one node of the polygonal network is determined, and at least one output variable which characterizes a surface defect of the surface is determi...