US Patent Issued to Scope Computer Vision Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for rope evaluation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,549, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Scope Computer Vision Technologies Corp (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Systems and methods for rope evaluation" was invented by Jacob Michael Kurtz Poroo Jr. (Sugar Land, Texas) and Samuel Justin McCoy (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment of the disclosed principles, a method of analyzing a rope to estimate its residual break strength (RBS) is provided. The method entails training a multi-layered neural network to recognize rope damage and estimate an RBS for a rope under study by collecting high-resolution visual data of a plurality of sample ropes, extracting visual featu...