ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,168, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Artificial intelligence device and method for generating training data" was invented by Yi Hu (Seoul, South Korea), Sangyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Run Cui (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehong Eom (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product inspection apparatus including a camera configured to capture an image of a product to be inspected; and a processor configured to extract defect information from a defect indicated by the captured image of the product, generate first virtual defect data including at ...