ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,140, issued on April 8, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for detecting objects and their state, apparatus and storage medium applying method, and electronic device" was invented by Yi-Chen Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting the presence and the correct or incorrect placement of target objects in a container or carrier divides the container space into areas where the states of placement of the target objects in the container can be recognized, to generate N number of sub-areas, N is a positive integer. An artificial intelligence model is obtai...