ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,875, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Adaptive system and method for inspection of imaged items" was invented by Yonatan Hyatt (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dagan Eshar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ran Ginsburg (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Gil Zohav (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual inspection system and method are provided in which a reference image of an item is processed and based on the processing a pre-trained model is adjusted to obtain an adapted model. The adapted model, rather than the pre-trained model, is then used to process an inspection image of a same-type item, to obtain inspection informat...