US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on June 17 for "Scrap determination system and scrap determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,190, issued on June 17, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Scrap determination system and scrap determination method" was invented by Yasuo Kishimoto (Tokyo), Futoshi Ogasawara (Tokyo) and Yasuyoshi Takao (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a scrap determination system and method that can improve scrap determination techniques. A scrap determination system (1) comprises: a first scrap determination model (221) generated using teaching data including first learning images, and determines, based on a camera image, grade of scrap in the image and a ratio of the grade; a second scrap determination model (2...