US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on March 24 for "Systems and methods for predicting an incoming rotational balance of an unfinished workpiece" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,176, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for predicting an incoming rotational balance of an unfinished workpiece" was invented by Beverly Chudo (Oakland, Mich.), Nathaniel David Hansen (Canton, Mich.), Martin H. Jones (Brighton, Mich.) and John Harlan Platek (Woodhaven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting an incoming rotational balance of an unfinished workpiece includes obtaining image data of the unfinished workpiece, generating a virtual representation of the unfinished workpiece based on the image data, segmenting the virtual representation into one...