US Patent Issued to SMITHS DETECTION FRANCE on July 7 for "Detection of liquid" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,868, issued on July 7, was assigned to SMITHS DETECTION FRANCE S.A.S. (Vitry-sur-Seine, France).

"Detection of liquid" was invented by Guillaume Jegou (Vitry-sur-Seine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting zones corresponding to a surface of liquid cargo the method including obtaining inspection data associated with pixels of zones of interest in the inspection image of the cargo which is tilted, the pixels having signal levels, determining a vertical derivative field from the obtained inspection data, determining a horizontal derivative field from the obtained inspection data, and determining, based on the det...