ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,490, issued on May 19, was assigned to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (New York).

"System and device for determining a color value of a target object, and methods thereof" was invented by Xiang Chen (Somerset, N.J.) and Donghui Wu (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a color value of a target object is provided. The method includes capturing an image having a color calibration object and a color reference object. Computed calibration color values for the color calibration object and a first computed reference color value for the color reference object may be determined based on the single first image. A col...