US Patent Issued to NIKE on March 18 for "Subtractive color change system and method" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,850, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Subtractive color change system and method" was invented by N. Scot Hull (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subtractive color change system for displaying a selected color to a viewer and a method of changing color. The system includes a layered assembly having transparent panels of primary and key colors, with a fixed-color background behind the layered assembly. The subtractive color change system may have a control unit to individually control the intensities and values of the primary color panels to render a color and to control the intensities...