US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on July 8 for "Method and device for deploying and using an image similarity metric with deep learning" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,627, issued on July 8, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Method and device for deploying and using an image similarity metric with deep learning" was invented by Donald R Baughman (Whitehouse, Ohio), Matthew Leopold (Whitehouse, Ohio), Guido Bischoff (Muenster, Germany), Stuart K Scott (Florham Park, N.J.) and Jessica J Mcguckin (Whitehouse, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method and a device that can measure an unknown target coating; can search, based on the measured data of the target coating, a database for one or more best matching coating formulas, i.e. one or more preliminary mat...