ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,347, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Visual inspection training board for artificial intelligence deep learning" was invented by YanLong Hou (Shenzhen, China), WeiFeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jiayu Zheng (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes an automatic optical inspection (AOI) and a database that stores images of a plurality of visual inspection (VI) training boards. Each of the visual inspection (VI) training boards includes at least one intended defect. The AOI system includes an artificial intelligence (AI)...