US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Obtaining realistic boundaries of structural defects of materials in images of structures" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,214, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Obtaining realistic boundaries of structural defects of materials in images of structures" was invented by Florian Michael Scheidegger (Dietlikon, Switzerland), Dhruti Nilesh Shah (Chavannes-pre-Renens, Switzerland) and Adelmo Cristiano Innocenza Malossi (Schonenberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, a method, computer system, and computer program product for obtaining boundaries of structural defects of materials in images of structures is provided. The present invention may include loading an image of a...