ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,162, issued on March 24, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus, injection molding system, and inspection method" was invented by Itta Nozawa (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus includes an imaging device acquiring a polarization image of a molding product, and a determination unit determining quality of the molding product. The determination unit includes an image generating unit generating a pseudo image from an input image in accordance with a machine-learned learning model, and the determination unit inputs the polarization image or a calculation image ob...