US Patent Issued to Akzo Nobel Coatings International on June 23 for "Estimating biofilm biomass on objects in an aquatic environment" (Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,382, issued on June 23, was assigned to Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Estimating biofilm biomass on objects in an aquatic environment" was invented by Jennifer Elise Longyear (Amsterdam) and Paul Stoodley (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for estimating aquatic environment-originating biofilm biomass on a coating of an object. The method includes obtaining one or more digital images of a fouled portion of the coating on the object and determining from each of the one or more images a respective reflectance value for the portion of the coating. The method includes deter...