ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,866, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Optimizing a set-up stage in an automatic visual inspection process" was invented by Yonatan Hyatt (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Dan Carmon (Modiin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for a visual inspection process, in which images of objects on an inspection line are automatically grouped into clusters based on the appearance of the object in the images. The clustered images create a broad database of images that can be used as a reference for inspected items having different appearances, which ensures that all parts a...