US Patent Issued to Bentley Systems on Aug. 25 for "Techniques for detecting and identifying signs in images" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,589, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Techniques for detecting and identifying signs in images" was invented by Marc-Andre Gardner (Quebec City), Israel Akobi (Quebec City), Cheikhou Ba (Quebec City) and Rania Benrhaiem (Quebec City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, a software application may implement techniques for detection and identification of physical objects such as signs in images. The techniques may a) decouple detection of the physical objects (e.g., signs) and their meta-classes from identification of information about the physical objects such as their specific te...