US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 24 for "AI system and method for automatic analog gauge reading" (American, Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,950, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"AI system and method for automatic analog gauge reading" was invented by Michele Merler (New York City, N.Y.), Dhiraj Joshi (Edison, N.J.), Apurv Gupta (Vadodara, India), Sebastien Gilbert (Granby, Canada), Shyama Prosad Chowdhury (West Bengal, India), Chidansh Amitkumar Bhatt (Hightstown, N.J.) and Nirmit V. Desai (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated analog gauge reading is provided. The method comprises a computer system receiving input of an image and detecting at least one analog gauge in the image. The compu...