ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,867, issued on July 7, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Method and device for detecting number of tabs" was invented by Lu Li (Ningde, China), Guannan Jiang (Ningde, China) and Zhiyu Wang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a number of tabs includes determining a pixel value of a first target pixel based on at least one pixel value of at least one first adjacent pixel adjacent to a first target pixel on a tab framework, and determining the number of tabs based on the pixel value of the first target pixel. Each of the at least one first adjacent pixel is an ...