ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,216, issued on March 4, was assigned to Musashi Auto Parts Canada Inc. (Waterloo, Canada).

"System and method for AI visual inspection" was invented by Martin Bufi (Waterloo, Canada) and Raef Shehata (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method for visual inspection. The system may be used in a quality assurance station at a manufacturing facility or site. The system may evaluate and determine the quality of manufactured or fabricated articles. The system may include a mechanical subsystem for capturing images of the article. The system may include a sensor such as a camera for capturing data, such...