ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,191, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cognex Corp. (Natick, Mass.).

"System and method for efficiently scoring probes in an image with a vision system" was invented by Nathaniel R. Bogan (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scoring trained probes for use in analyzing one or more candidate poses of a runtime image is provided. A set of probes with location and gradient direction based on a trained model are applied to one or more candidate poses based upon a runtime image. The applied probes each respectively include a discrete set of position offsets with respect to the gradient direction thereof. A...