ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,655, issued on Dec. 23.

"Computer-implemented methods for analyzing thermographic image having article of interest using machine learning and for training machine learning algorithm therefor" was invented by Young-Jin Cha (Winnipeg, Canada) and Rahmat Ali (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for analyzing a thermographic image to detect an article of interest (AOI) comprises processing the image using a machine learning algorithm configured to detect the AOI and comprising a convolutional neural network (CNN); and displaying the image with location of the AOI being indicated if determined to ...