US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy on May 20 for "System and method for automated foreign material exclusion attendant" (Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,772, issued on May 20, was assigned to Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"System and method for automated foreign material exclusion attendant" was invented by Michael R. Vindler (Pittsburgh), Zachary Franczyk (Oakmont, Pa.), Scott A. Karstetter (Monroeville, Pa.), Phani Ram Kumar Kuruganty (Robbinsville, N.J.) and Rajat Vikram Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to account for foreign material in a zone includes the steps of training an object detection model to identify an object using a set of database images of objects on a computer utilizing AI algorithms to create a trained object detection mod...