US Patent Issued to Bright Machines on July 29 for "Image analysis system for testing in manufacturing" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,934, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bright Machines Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image analysis system for testing in manufacturing" was invented by Melinda Varga (Seattle), Konstantinos Boulis (Redmond, Wash.), Oytun Akman (Oakland, Calif.), Julio Soldevilla Estrada (Seattle) and Brian Philip Mathews (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision analytics and validation (VAV) system for providing an improved inspection of robotic assembly, the VAV system comprising a trained neural network three-way classifier, to classify each component as good, bad, or do not know, and an operator station configured to enable an operat...