ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,673, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Neptec OS Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).
"Fiber detection and alignment system" was invented by Miao Qi (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an imaging system and a fiber detection and alignment system. The fiber detection and alignment system includes one or more neural networks trained to detect end faces of one or more fibers in an image and to predict rotation angle and direction of rotation for each fiber that will align an axis of the fiber to associated reference keys. In operation, the imaging system generates an image of an end face of one or more polarization-ma...