ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,534, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).
"Engineering components" was invented by Andrew J Keane (Southampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of assessing the suitability of a component, including: utilising a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN), the cGAN network having an input, a generator and a discriminator; obtaining images or scans of manufactured components for both acceptable and non-acceptable components; training the discriminator of the cGAN with the images representing the acceptable and non-acceptable scans or images of a manufactured comp...