US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 1 for "Interfaces for assisted defect recognition systems" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,412, issued on July 1, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Interfaces for assisted defect recognition systems" was invented by Sean Lin (Hopkins, Minn.), Joseph Schlecht (Rogers, Minn.), Caleb Nelson Hay (Minneapolis) and Eric Ferley (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are examples of interfaces for designing and/or configuring custom assisted defect recognition (ADR) systems and/or workflows. In some examples, the ADR systems and/or workflows may be designed and/or configured using visual tools, such as, for example, node based processing tools. In some examples, the ADR workflows may ...