ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,826, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FYLA LASER, S. L. (Paterna, Spain).

"System, robot and method for measuring the color of an area of a sample or of a vehicle's part" was invented by Pere Perez Millan (Paterna, Spain) and Javier Abreu Afonso (Paterna, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, robot and method to measure the color of an area of a sample. The system includes a light source to emit spatially coherent light that includes a broad spectrum of wavelengths; an optical arrangement to scan an area of the sample, part-by-part, with a collimated beam of said light; an optical spectrometer to receive scattered light an...