ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,364, issued on June 23, was assigned to Maytronics Ltd. (Kibbutz Yizrael, Israel).
"Water turbidity evaluation using image sensor" was invented by Nachum Lerner (Akko, Israel) and Gilad Goldenberg (Kfar-Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for estimating water turbidity using image data, comprising analyzing a plurality of images of one or more objects submerged in water captured under water from a plurality of distances, calculating a luma value for each of a plurality of pixels along one or more gradient lines across the object(s) in each of the plurality of images, calculating, for e...