ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,883, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"System and process for automatic interface recognition in tire product profiles" was invented by Thierry Chateau (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Priyanka Phutane (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Mohamed-Abbas Konate (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process for training a model for automatically recognizing positions in tire product profiles includes calculating an error term with respect to a label assigned in a reference of the interfaces searched in captured images of the tire ...