US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 18 for "Systems for width measurement corrections of test specimens based on background brightness data of captured images" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,605, issued on March 18, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems for width measurement corrections of test specimens based on background brightness data of captured images" was invented by Christian J. Hoehl (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany) and Michael Ashman (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods to correct for edge-position error associated with brightness levels of an associated back screen in a video extensometer system. In some examples, to correct for edge-position error, a processing system is configured to execute an edge detection algorithm to m...