ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,322, issued on April 29, was assigned to Zahoransky AG (Todtnau, Germany).
"Method for quality testing of brushes, in particular toothbrushes, testing device and brush making machine" was invented by Felix Wassmer (Schopfheim, Germany) and Urs Schmid (Todtnau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quality testing of brushes (2) is provided, in which method a trained, AI-based, classifier (4) is used. After corresponding training using a training data set which shows images of defective brushes, the classifier (4) is configured to classify brushes (2) to be checked as defective brushes based on images of the brushes (2)."...