ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,017, issued on Jan. 13.
"Object imaging and detection systems and methods" was invented by Francois Ruel (Victoriaville, Canada), Martin E. Oehlbeck (Cohocton, N.Y.), Deep Rajendrakumar Joshi (Houston) and Calvin Stuart Holt (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including selecting image data of a mechanical mud separation machines ("MMSM") to detect objects in an object flow and other operational conditions at the MMSM. The image data may be processed by a Deep Neural Network to identify objects in the object flow, operational parameters of the MMSM, and environmental conditions. Additional image data may be selected for ...