US Patent Issued to SWIMC on July 15 for "Augmentation of digital images with simulated surface coatings" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,613, issued on July 15, was assigned to SWIMC LLC (Cleveland).

"Augmentation of digital images with simulated surface coatings" was invented by Preston Williams (Bay Village, Ohio), Brendan Do (North Ridgeville, Ohio), Daniel Cody Richmond (North Ridgeville, Ohio) and Michael Dowell (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating product selection system and method. Recognized objects in an input image can be used to determine one or more dominant colors for determining recommended coating products. An image augmentation system and method for simulating the application of a coating to a surface of the image in a scene. A scene...