ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,316, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Determining the level of wear of a tool" was invented by Benjamin Samuel Lutz (Munich) and Daniel Regulin (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a computer-implemented method for determining a level of wear of a tool. The method includes: obtaining an image data set mapping a wear-relevant region of the tool; allocating, using a computing unit and an artificial neural network, one class of a predetermined quantity of classes to each image point of a plurality of image points of the image data set; and determining a characteristic value based on ...