ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,647, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to X-RITE Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
"System and method for ink inventory reduction" was invented by Chris Halford (Lowell, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-factor method of optimizing a quantity of inks in a spot color ink inventory associated with an ink inventory management system is provided. An electronic device performs the steps of: importing a first set of spot color data from the ink stock management system, setting a color tolerance, obtaining color differences between spectral information of pairs of color references in the first set of spot color data, identifying color ...