US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on March 4 for "Systems and methods for equipment inspection" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,220, issued on March 4, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for equipment inspection" was invented by Milan Karunaratne (Orange, Calif.) and Nathan Thomas North (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving image data representative of an appearance of an equipment part prior to an inspection process and evaluating the image data with a machine learning model that defines baseline image data to determine whether the image data indicates the equipment part has been prepared for the inspection. The inspection process may be prevented when the evaluation indicates t...