US Patent Issued to Wipotec on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for the detection of anomalies in two-dimensional digital images of products" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,040, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wipotec GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for the detection of anomalies in two-dimensional digital images of products" was invented by Michael Siegrist (Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Manuel Bastuck (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting anomalies in digital images of products, wherein a region of a digital image is detected as a maximum anomaly if the value of a property of the region is greater than a predetermined maximum threshold, and/or wherein a region is detected as a minimum anomaly if the value of the property of the region is...