US Patent Issued to China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Institute on Nov. 3 for "YOLOv8-based industrial pipeline defect detection method and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,431, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Institute (Beijing).

"YOLOv8-based industrial pipeline defect detection method and system" was invented by Jinzhong Chen (Beijing), Runkun Lu (Beijing), Chuang Liang (Beijing), Rui Li (Beijing), Xumiao Lv (Beijing), Chang Liu (Beijing), Jiaxing Xin (Beijing), Kuan Fu (Beijing), Yilai Ma (Beijing) and Renyang He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved YOLOv8-based industrial pipeline defect detection method and system are provided. The method includes: acquiring a pipeline surface image; and recognizing a defect position and a defect type i...