ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,390, issued on March 24, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for characterizing microspheric material" was invented by Karl C. Kharas (Iselin, N.J.), Ke-Bin Low (Iselin, N.J.), David J. Camerota (Attapulgus, Ga.) and Xingtao Gao (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for characterizing the porosity of a microspheric material, training a classifier model for classifying spatially-contiguous image regions of backscatter electron scanning electron microscopy (BSE-SEM) images of a microspheric material according ...