US Patent Issued to Sight Machine on July 22 for "Machine-vision system and method for remote quality inspection of a product" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,824, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sight Machine Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine-vision system and method for remote quality inspection of a product" was invented by Nathan Oostendorp (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kurtis Alan Demaagd (Grand Ledge, Mich.) and Anthony Michael Oliver (Manchester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-vision system for monitoring a quality metric for a product. The system includes a controller configured to receive a digital image from an image acquisition device. The controller is also configured to analyze the digital image using a first machine-vision algorithm to compute a measurement of the produ...