ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,512, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Coating process and quality control of coated objects" was invented by Daniele Angelosante (Turgi, Switzerland), Jacobus Lodevicus Martinus Van Mechelen (Regensdorf, Switzerland), Deran Maas (Zurich, Switzerland), Giorgio Signorello (Zurich, Switzerland) and Marco Guerriero (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modelling a coating process including a plurality of coating parameters, includes the steps of: dispensing, by the coating process and during K work cycles, a coating on each of K pieces of objects to thereby obtain K pieces o...