US Patent Issued to Texas State University on Sept. 8 for "Three-dimensional photometric reconstruction based automated air-void segmentation system for hardened concrete" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,336, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas).

"Three-dimensional photometric reconstruction based automated air-void segmentation system for hardened concrete" was invented by Feng Wang (Kyle, Texas), Jueqiang Tao (San Marcos, Texas), Haitao Gong (San Marcos, Texas), Xiaohua Luo (Kyle, Texas) and Yaxiong Huang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to a computer-implemented method for automated identification of air voids on a surface by receiving a plurality of images of the surface; reconstructing the plurality of images into at least one thr...