US Patent Issued to BASF COATINGS on Nov. 3 for "Color adjustment methods and systems" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,196, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BASF COATINGS GMBH (Muenster, Germany).

"Color adjustment methods and systems" was invented by Guido Bischoff (Muenster, Germany) and Carlos Vignolo (Wuerzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for matching the color of a sample coating to the color of a reference coating. More specifically, described herein are methods and systems for determining an adapted modified sample coating formulation which, when applied onto a substrate, sufficiently matches the color of a reference coating by determining adjusted optical data for each individual color comp...