ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,215, issued on March 4, was assigned to Univeristy of Washington (Seattle).
"Method for segmenting images" was invented by Tianyu Jiang (Seattle), Xu Chen (Seattle) and Mengying Leng (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes capturing an image of a powder bed with a visible light camera that shares an optical axis with a laser beam. The laser beam is configured for heating the powder bed. The method also includes increasing first intensities of first pixels of the image that are indicative of foreign objects within the image and normalizing second intensities of second pixels of the image that are indicative of uneven...