ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,668, issued on May 26, was assigned to Two Six Labs LLC (Arlington, Va.).
"Circuit board analysis and bill of materials generation" was invented by Alexander Zaitzeff (Arlington, Va.) and Austin Fletcher (Keego Harbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board analysis system receives an image of a circuit implementation such as a printed circuit board (PCB), and renders a list of components, part numbers and vendors, referred to as a Bill of Materials (BOM) cataloging the constituent components and placement on the board. A scanning of the PCB image yields placement and identification of components, and textual recognition...