US Patent Issued to Columbia Insurance on July 1 for "Methods and systems for measuring the texture of carpet" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,656, issued on July 1, was assigned to Columbia Insurance Co. (Omaha, Neb.).

"Methods and systems for measuring the texture of carpet" was invented by William Neil Vaughan (Rydal, Ga.) and David Lindahl (Euharlee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for analyzing one or more images of a textile to determine a presence or absence of defects. In one example, an image of at least a portion of a textile may be obtained and compared to a reference image of a reference textile. Based on the comparison, one or more areas indicative of a height variation between the textile and the reference textile may be det...