US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on April 29 for "Automatic inventory creation via image recognition and overlay" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,186, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Automatic inventory creation via image recognition and overlay" was invented by Gordon Wilfong (Portland, Ore.), Yihao Zhang (Chatham, N.J.), Iraj Saniee (New Providence, N.J.) and Maria Laura Maag (Sainte Genevieve des Bois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically creating an equipment inventory from a plurality of images of a site. The method includes receiving, by a processor, the plurality of images of the site, labeling, by the processor, equipment present in each image of the plurality of images of the site, creat...