US Patent Issued to HAMAD MEDICAL on Sept. 8 for "System and method for facial mask detection and disinfection for reuse" (Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,237, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HAMAD MEDICAL Corp. (Doha, Qatar).

"System and method for facial mask detection and disinfection for reuse" was invented by Nazmul Ahsan (Doha, Qatar), Shidin Balakrishnan (Doha, Qatar), Sarada Prasad Dakua (Doha, Qatar), Abdulla Al-Ansari (Doha, Qatar), Julien Abi Nahed (Doha, Qatar), Joji Abraham (Doha, Qatar) and Carlos Velasquez (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for handling, inspecting, and orienting a mask to be placed into a disinfection system. The systems and methods include a computer vision system configured to...