ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,197, issued on Oct. 14.
"Monitoring process stations utilizing visual indicators" was invented by Andreas Strauch (Saint-Augustin-des-Desmaures, Canada), Sylvio Laplante (Quebec, Canada), Yannick Maret (Aargau, Switzerland), Carl Robins (Perth, Australia), Guillaume Alarie (Quebec, Canada) and Sebastien Larose (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a system includes at least one processor configured to identify a digital image of the process station generated during an operation of the process station, identify, in the digital image, a visual indicator of the process station, and analyze the visual indicator to...