US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Dec. 16 for "Control of cleaning machine cycles using machine vision" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,947, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Control of cleaning machine cycles using machine vision" was invented by Conor Sylvester Smith (Saint Louis Park, Minn.), Paul Dominic Christian (Apple Valley, Minn.), Elizabeth Minhee Han (St. Paul, Minn.), Paul R. Kraus (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Rachel Marie McGinness (Rosemount, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image classification is used to dynamically control one or more wash parameters in an automated cleaning machine. An imaging device installed in the wash chamber of the cleaning machine captures one or more image(s) of articles to be cleaned at ...