ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,464, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Method and system for detecting a false error on a component of a board inspected by an AOI machine" was invented by Tova Yadin (Mazkeret Batya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and a method for detecting a false error in a set of errors detected on components of a board that is inspected by an automated optical inspection (AOI) machine. Input data are received. The input data include data originating from AOI machine's inspection results of a given inspected board marked as failed. A false error detector is applied to the input data....