ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,045, issued on Feb. 10.
"Remote color matching devices and system" was invented by Dennis Willard Davis (Palm Bay, Fla.), Alice McKinstry Davis (Palm Bay, Fla.) and Adam Michael Phenis (Poway, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a method and system for cost effective, convenient remote high fidelity color reproduction and matching that can be used to convey color to observers remote from the physical source of color. Such remote observers can include product consumers wishing to view a product color, for example. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises capture of article or product reflectance spectr...