ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,783, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP Co. LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and system for producing a path and painting an object along the path" was invented by Robert K. Roop (King of Prussia, Pa.), Ashish Jawadiwar (New Brunswick, N.J.), Anthony J. Calabria (Thornton, Pa.), John R. Moore (Lansdale, Pa.), Robert V. Canning Jr. (Bear, Del.), Bryant C. Jeffrey (Middletown, Del.), Neil R. Murphy (Audubon, N.J.), Jonathan A. Antal (Philadelphia) and Praveen Thiagarajan (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for robotically painting an object are provided. In one example, the meth...