ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,611, issued on June 17, was assigned to TITANIUM METALS Corp. (Henderson, Nev.).

"Video analysis-based algorithm for triggering power cutback in vacuum arc remelting" was invented by Nir Herscovici (Las Vegas) and Ashish D. Patel (Wyomissing, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a vision system including an imaging device and a VAR monitoring system configured to determine a power adjustment phase of the VAR process based on the images from the vision system and a process parameter. The VAR monitoring system includes a vision analysis module configured to analyze the images from the vision system to detect a m...