ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,920, issued on July 7, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).
"Method and system for designing the appearance of objects being coated with a least one colored coating layer" was invented by Benjamin Lanfer (Muenster, Germany), Jens Wegner (Muenster, Germany), Mark Gutjahr (Muenster, Germany), Florina Trost (Muenster, Germany), Michaela Finkenzeller (Muenster, Germany), Andreas Pflug (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Julius Steinhauser (Berlin), Matthias Winckelmann (Berlin), Henrik Mauler (Berlin) and Helge Kiehl (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for designing the appearance of an ...