US Patent Issued to X-RITE EUROPE on Sept. 16 for "Visualizing the appearances of at least two materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,599, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to X-RITE EUROPE GMBH (Regensdorf, Switzerland).

"Visualizing the appearances of at least two materials" was invented by Martin Rump (Winderscheid, Germany), Gero Muller (Bonn, Germany) and Francis Lamy (Wollerau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer-implemented method for visualizing the appearances of at least two materials, a first instance (56) of an appearance model is obtained, the first instance being indicative of an appearance of a first material, and a second instance (66) of the appearance model is obtained, the second instance (66) being indicative of an appearance of...