US Patent Issued to Tungsten Automation on June 24 for "Iterative recognition-guided thresholding and data extraction" (New York, California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,552, issued on June 24, was assigned to Tungsten Automation Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Iterative recognition-guided thresholding and data extraction" was invented by Christopher W. Thrasher (Rochester, N.Y.), Alexander Shustorovich (Pittsford, N.Y.), Stephen Michael Thompson (Oceanside, Calif.), Jan W. Amtrup (Silver Spring, Md.) and Anthony Macciola (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for binarization and extraction of information from image data are disclosed. The inventive concepts include independently binarizing portions of the image data on the basis of individual features, e.g. per connected component, and ...