US Patent Issued to Intel on July 7 for "Technologies for source degradation detection and auto-tuning of cameras" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,954, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for source degradation detection and auto-tuning of cameras" was invented by Kevin M. Midkiff (Beaverton, Ore.) and Rita H. Wouhaybi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for source degradation and auto-tuning of cameras are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a compute node connected to one or more cameras. The cameras can monitor an environment, such as a manufacturing process in a factory. The compute node may use image processing, such as a machine-learning-based algorithm, to monitor processes. A system integr...