ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,257, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Anomaly monitoring for technical systems based on the compatibility of image data with a predefined distribution" was invented by Robert Schmier (Heidelberg, Germany), Christoph-Nikolas Straehle (Weil der Stadt, Germany), Dan Zhang (Leonberg, Germany) and Ullrich Koethe (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting anomalies in input image data, in particular from a camera, by detecting to what extent the input image data match at least one predefined distribution of image data or deviate from this predefined distribution. I...