US Patent Issued to RivalShot on Jan. 20 for "Automated image aberration identification system and method" (California, Nevada, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,802, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RivalShot Corp. (Atherton, Calif.).

"Automated image aberration identification system and method" was invented by Paul Clauson (Atherton, Calif.), Matthew Newell (Reno, Nev.), Max Lee (Bountiful, Utah) and Teja Veeramacheneni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aberrations on a surface, such as shots on a target, are identified through image processing techniques using color subtraction. An image of the surface is first initialized by shrinking the image and identifying pixel colors. A quantization algorithm is used to identify K number of colors, and acceptable variations for those...