US Patent Issued to Insight Direct USA on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for evaluating the composition of pigment in a coating based on an image" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,870, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Method and apparatus for evaluating the composition of pigment in a coating based on an image" was invented by Michael Griffin (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating analyzer is configured to receive electronic image data of a physical coating and to generate information regarding the pigments of the physical coating. The coating analyzer applies a computer vision model trained on baseline image data to the electronic image data. The coating analyzer assigns color values to the pigments forming the electronic image data and generat...