US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 21 for "Graph algorithm and motion capture for improving manufacturing processes" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,970, issued on April 21, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Graph algorithm and motion capture for improving manufacturing processes" was invented by Chia-Hsi Wang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yen-Yu Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically detecting whether a procedure in a scheduled process has been performed is disclosed. The method includes: capturing images of a person engaged in a plurality of predetermined steps in the scheduled process; estimating a human pose of the person in the captured images that includes a plurality of body parts of the h...