US Patent Issued to VIRTEK VISION INTERNATIONAL on June 3 for "Method and system for inspecting a surface with artifical intelligence assist" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,759, issued on June 3, was assigned to VIRTEK VISION INTERNATIONAL INC. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Method and system for inspecting a surface with artifical intelligence assist" was invented by Ahmed Elhossini (Waterloo, Canada) and David Paul Smith (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system identifying an area of interest of an inspection surface is disclosed. A controller includes a machine learning model trained using stored images defining an area of interest on the inspection surface. A laser projector for projecting laser indicia onto the inspection surface is spatially located relative to the inspection surface enabli...