US Patent Issued to U-NICA SYSTEMS on Nov. 4 for "Computer implemented method and system of skin identification comprising scales" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,596, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to U-NICA SYSTEMS AG (Landquart, Switzerland).

"Computer implemented method and system of skin identification comprising scales" was invented by Sergei Startchik (Geneva) and Serge Heughebaert (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of skin identification having scales, especially reptile skin identification, includes the steps of acquiring at least one image of a skin portion to be identified, detecting of features corresponding to borders of scales in the image, building a graph of the repetitive pattern scales positions of detected scales, determining the outline of t...