US Patent Issued to EVONIK OPERATIONS on March 17 for "Paints, printing inks, grind resins, pigment concentrates or other coating substances" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,416, issued on March 17, was assigned to EVONIK OPERATIONS GMBH (Essen, Germany).

"Paints, printing inks, grind resins, pigment concentrates or other coating substances" was invented by Oliver Kroehl (Cologne, Germany), Gaetano Blanda (Haltern am See, Germany), Stefan Silber (Krefeld, Germany), Inga Husen (Dortmund, Germany), Sandra Bittorf (Witten, Germany), Philipp Isken (Altenberge, Germany) and Ulf Schoeneberg (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes using known compositions to train the convolutional neural network, a loss function being minimized for the training; examining whether the value of a loss functio...