US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Identifying occluded objects in engineering drawings" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,199, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying occluded objects in engineering drawings" was invented by Aneesh Agrawal (Holmdel, N.J.), Pranita Sharad Dewan (New York), Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.) and Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to identifying occluded objects, a computer retrieves a first image that includes an object at least partially occluded by one or more occlusions. A computer removes the one or more occlusions from the first image to create a partial object in a second image. A computer runs a detection mo...