US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for matching and adjusting pigmentation of a sample coating to a target coating" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,078, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Method and system for matching and adjusting pigmentation of a sample coating to a target coating" was invented by Guido Bischoff (Muenster, Germany) and Florian Steufmehl (Muenster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer-implemented method for matching and adjusting pigmentation of a target coating, the method including at least the steps of: retrieving from a formulation database which includes formulas for coating compositions with different pigmentations, one preliminary matching formula; providing a match metric; and ...