ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,567, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ventus Engineering GmbH (Vienna).

"Method and device for on-site evaluating quality of an image" was invented by Xavier Tolron (Vienna), Shavkat Mingaliev (Vienna) and Poul Anker Skaarup Lubker (Baar, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for on-site evaluating quality of an image of a part of a structure, optionally a part of a wind turbine generator, the method comprising acts of: -receiving an image from a visual inspection system with a field of view about a line of sight towards the part of the structure; -dividing the image into sub-images; -calculating edge scores of the su...