US Patent Issued to Domtar Paper on Sept. 22 for "System and method for quantifying a degree of fibrillation of fibers within pulp using image processing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,292, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Domtar Paper Co. LLC (Fort Mill, S.C.).

"System and method for quantifying a degree of fibrillation of fibers within pulp using image processing" was invented by Jean-Philippe Bernie (Montreal), Harshad Pande (Pointe-Claire, Canada), Lindsey Clifton (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Alexander Timothy Beam (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that leverage image processing to determine fibrillation within pulp. Size and shape analysis, such as adaptive thresholding and binarization, may be performed ...