US Patent Issued to Gestigon on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for distinguishing different configuration states of an object based on an image representation of the object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,000, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Gestigon GmbH (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for distinguishing different configuration states of an object based on an image representation of the object" was invented by Johanna Awada (Luebeck, Germany) and Florian Hartmann (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distinguishing different configuration states of an object based on an image representation of the object involves acquiring original image data representing an original image comprising a picture of the object; detecting the object within the original image; determining an orientation of the detected o...