ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,770, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ROBOTEC PTC GMBH (Bremen, Germany).

"Method for the computer-assisted learning of an artificial neural network for detecting structural features of objects" was invented by Friederike Von Rundstedt (Bremen, Germany), Stephan Von Rundstedt (Bremen, Germany) and Adrian Leu (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the computer-aided training of an artificial neural network (ANN) for recognizing structural features on objects, by means of which method identified structural features on objects are recognizable rapidly and reliable. That is achieved by virtue of the fact that a co...