US Patent Issued to Kohler on Aug. 25 for "Plumbing fixture product identification" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,520, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kohler Co. (Kohler, Wis.).

"Plumbing fixture product identification" was invented by Jon Proeber (Fox Point, Wis.), Nithin Ramachandran (Brookfield, Wis.), Shreshtha Gupta (Chhattisgarh, India), Rahul Hirve (Pune, India) and Aaditya Tank (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for identification of a plumbing product includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface is configured to receive a raw image of the plumbing product. A first model is configured to analyze the raw image of the plumbing product. A second model is configured to analy...