US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for component detection in a manufacturing environment" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,996, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for component detection in a manufacturing environment" was invented by Ranjanikar Vinay (Tamilnadu, India), Vipul Jirge (Maharashtra, India), Chekuri Prudhveeraju (Tamilnadu, India) and Chhapparghare Hivraj Vijay (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes segmenting point cloud data of an image into a plurality of input clusters, wherein each of the plurality of input clusters includes a given set of point cloud data from among the point cloud data. The method includes, for each of the plurality of inp...