US Patent Issued to SWIMC on June 24 for "Augmentation of digital images with simulated surface coatings" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,452, issued on June 24, 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: "An image augmentation system and method for simulating the application of a coating to a surface of an original image. A mask generator can perform a search to detect a recognized object depicted in the original image, and generate a object mask for the recognized object. A user interface can to receive an iden...