US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods to apply surface treatments" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,894, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Systems and methods to apply surface treatments" was invented by Wyatt S. Newman (Cleveland) and Samuel A. Bell (Cleveland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes storing surface treatment data to specify at least one selected surface treatment to apply at a target location along a vehicle path of travel, the surface treatment data including a machine-readable description and a reference coordinate frame for the selected surface treatment. The method also includes generating task plan data to apply the selected surfac...