US Patent Issued to Taiyuan University of Technology on Sept. 15 for "Coal flow identification method based on background subtraction algorithm" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,015, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Taiyuan University of Technology (Taiyuan, China).

"Coal flow identification method based on background subtraction algorithm" was invented by Hua Ding (Taiyuan, China), Guangyu Zheng (Taiyuan, China), Zheqian Zhao (Taiyuan, China), Junhu Zhang (Taiyuan, China), Junjun Zhao (Taiyuan, China), Bao Wang (Taiyuan, China), Tianyu Zhang (Taiyuan, China), Kun Yang (Taiyuan, China) and Jiacheng Xie (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coal flow identification method based on a background subtraction algorithm, including: S1: simultaneously capturing images of a coal layer at a coal unload...