US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on July 8 for "Identification of effect pigments in a target coating" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,309, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Identification of effect pigments in a target coating" was invented by Donald R. Baughman (Whitehouse, Ohio), Guido Bischoff (Munster, Germany), Matthew Leopold (Whitehouse, Ohio), Jessica J. McGuckin (Whitehouse, Ohio) and Stuart K. Scott (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer-implemented method. The method includes: providing digital images and respective formulas for coating compositions with known pigments and/or pigment classes associated with the respective digital images, classifying, using an image annotati...