ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,307, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC (Lynchburg, Va.).
"System and method for particle morphology classification" was invented by Ryan Scott Kitchen (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Travis Adam McFalls (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for particle morphology classification. The method includes obtaining input imagery of a particle sample that includes powder particles that are sintered together. The method also includes generating an input dataset for clustering based on the input imagery, including (i) detecting and segmenting powder particles, (ii) extracting and standard...