US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Feb. 3 for "Image correlation for end-to-end displacement and strain measurement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,815, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Image correlation for end-to-end displacement and strain measurement" was invented by Ping Guo (Northfield, Ill.) and Ru Yang (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for correlating image data includes a memory configured to store a sequence of images of a sample. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to crop a first pair of images to specify a region of interest in the first pair of images, where at least one image in the pair of images is from the sequence of images. The processor is also ...