US Patent Issued to Siemens on Oct. 7 for "System and method for automatically orienting product containers" (New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,875, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and method for automatically orienting product containers" was invented by Annemarie Breu (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Joseph Tylka (Pennington, N.J.), Baris Erol (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Philip Gregor (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Dominic Trinko (La Crosse, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for automatically orienting product containers includes acquiring a reference product label image associated with a batch of product containers on a production line and using a trained deep learning model to compute a perceptual center of the reference pro...