US Patent Issued to SMARTAUGER on Feb. 10 for "Automated depth estimation for non-destructive testing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,884, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SMARTAUGER INC. (Wadsworth, Ohio).

"Automated depth estimation for non-destructive testing" was invented by Nathan Stein (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a depth of one or more buried objects can include receiving, from a non-destructive testing (NDT) scanner, a B-Scan image of a scanned region. Using a machine learning model, a hyperbola in the B-Scan image can be identified. At least one geometric feature of the hyperbola can be determined. Based upon the at least one geometric feature of the hyperbola, a dielectric constant in at least a portion of the scanned ...