US Patent Issued to Bentley Systems on Sept. 2 for "Techniques for extracting links and connectivity from schematic diagrams" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,519, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Techniques for extracting links and connectivity from schematic diagrams" was invented by Marc-Andre Gardner (Quebec, Canada), Simon Savary (Quebec, Canada), Evan Rausch-Larouche (Quebec, Canada), Raphael Melancon (Quebec, Canada) and Karl-Alexandre Jahjah (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, techniques are provided for using a combination of multiple ML models and signal processing to extract links and connectivity from a schematic diagram in an image-only format. A first ML model (i.e. link segmenter) may produce a first se...