ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,388, issued on June 23, was assigned to FIERY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Automatic media color profile identification" was invented by Dirk De Baer (Berchem, Belgium) and Mario Kuehn (Duisburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Color profiling a media for a printer is a tedious and time-consuming process. Embodiments of the invention avoid the need for unnecessary color calibration and profiling by making use of similarities in color rendering that exist between various printers and their color behavior on a media, as well as the similarity of substrates. In this way, embodiments of the invention avoid the need to create output pro...