ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,251, issued on July 8, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Detection of structures" was invented by Dang Hai Tran Vu (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) and Alexander Suppes (Hurth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting structures is provided. The method can include receiving inspection image data characterizing a region of interest of an object being inspected. The regions of interest can include one or more structures of the object. The method can also include determining, using a computer vision algorithm, a structure within the region of interest with respect to photometric properties of pixel data ...