ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,803, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UrynX LLC (East Chatham, N.Y.).

"System and method for identification of colors in digital images" was invented by Brian Schwab (East Chatham, N.Y.), Alexander Paul Karpowicz (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Edward Martin Kohler (Caldwell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of some embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for comparing a color of a colored region to a plurality of predetermined discrete colors, the method comprising: a) identifying, on a digital image, a colored region; b) determining a color of the colored region, and determining a set of first values of color...