ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,973, issued on July 15, was assigned to Thousand Lights Lighting (Changzhou) Ltd (Changzhou, China).

"Full-appearance color matching method and color matching device" was invented by Ming Ronnier Luo (Changzhou, China), Jianlong Zhang (Changzhou, China), Ting-Wei Huang (Changzhou, China), Candong He (Changzhou, China), Xin Xiong (Changzhou, China), Jing Feng (Changzhou, China) and Xiaoping Zhang (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color matching method and a color matching device are provided, the color matching method includes: S1, determining a target color; S2, judging whether color data of a sample is obtained, if ...