US Patent Issued to Florida Power & Light on Nov. 3 for "Equipment identification using computer vision" (Florida, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,484, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Florida Power & Light Co. (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"Equipment identification using computer vision" was invented by Ricardo L. Rivera (Palm City, Fla.), Alena C Krause (Coconut Creek, Fla.), Hany F. Bassily (Oviedo, Fla.), Lorenzo Estrada (West Palm Beach, Fla.), Ashwin K. Kunduru (Wellington, Fla.) and Randall R. Wagner (DePere, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Employing computer vision to verify equipment is discussed. One example method includes receiving an image comprising an equipment identifier tag and identifying text regions in the image. The method additionally includes generating a clust...