ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,936, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Two Six Labs LLC (Arlington, Va.).
"Circuit board image analysis" was invented by Alexander Fafard (Rochester, N.Y.) and Austin Fletcher (Keego Harbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit analysis application receives an imaged representation of a circuit, such as a schematic, circuit board image, scan result, or other similar electronic pixelated representation capable of raster (video screen renderable) visualization. The application iterates through a sequence of extraction and classification operations, including an object or component extraction for identifying discrete componen...