ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,672, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Vision Components Gesellschaft Fuer Bildverarbeitungssystems MBH (Ettlingen, Germany).

"Method and system or device for recognizing an object in an electronic image" was invented by Michael Engel (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for machine vision and image analysis for recognizing an object in an electronic image, which is captured with the aid of an optical sensor. A reference image of the object to be recognized is trained during a learning phase and compared with the image of the scene during a working phase, the pattern comparison between the object and...