ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,909, issued on April 21, was assigned to CDS Visual Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Component identification" was invented by Bodhayan Dev (Sturbridge, Mass.), Aaron Smith (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Girish Juneja (Lexington, Mass.) and Prem Swaroop (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a test image captured by a camera of a mobile device, the image including a test component; processing the test image using a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model has been trained by obtaining a 3D model file representing a 3D model of a training component, generating a plurality of images of the trai...