US Patent Issued to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP on Aug. 5 for "Image-based matching of color and appearance of coatings containing effect pigments, using a cosine comparison methodology" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,536, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP Co. LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Image-based matching of color and appearance of coatings containing effect pigments, using a cosine comparison methodology" was invented by Sebastian Hurtado Parra (Philadelphia), Neil R. Murphy (Audubon, N.J.), Francisco Miguel Martinez Verdu (Upper Darby, Pa.), Anthony Calabria (Thornton, Pa.), Larry Steenhoek (Ellicott City, Md.) and Benjamin Gamoke (Collingswood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here is a method of matching color and appearance of coatings containing at least one effect pigment. The method involves: obtaining...