US Patent Issued to C3.ai on Jan. 28 for "Data-efficient object detection of engineering schematic symbols" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,305, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to C3.ai Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Data-efficient object detection of engineering schematic symbols" was invented by Zhaoxi Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amir H. Delgoshaie (Redwood City, Calif.), Chih-Hsu Lin (Belmont, Calif.) and Shouvik Mani (New York City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining an engineering schematic containing multiple symbols and connections involving the symbols, where different ones of the symbols in the engineering schematic represent different types of equipment. The method also includes identifying visual features of the engineering schematic...