US Patent Issued to Foreman Technologies on March 25 for "System for detecting thickness of a coating autonomously applied to a structure" (Tennessee, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,590, issued on March 25, was assigned to Foreman Technologies Inc. (Hendersonville, Tenn.).

"System for detecting thickness of a coating autonomously applied to a structure" was invented by Tom Jose (Hendersonville, Tenn.), Matthew Grant Lopez (Frisco, Texas) and Nick Hegeman (Hendersonville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: navigating a spray nozzle across and applying a coating to a region of a structure via the spray nozzle; illuminating the coating applied to the region; detecting an intensity of light emitted by the coating at the region; calculating a coating thickness of the coating applied to the regio...