US Patent Issued to Gemological Institute of America Inc. (GIA) on Sept. 8 for "Gemstone cut analysis" (California, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,326, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Gemological Institute of America Inc. (GIA) (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Gemstone cut analysis" was invented by James Conant (Escondido, Calif.), Jason Quick (Las Vegas), Ilene Miller Reinitz (Chicago), Brock Aaron Wilke (Henderson, Nev.), Alexander Abraham Balter (Livingston, N.J.), Troy Blodgett (Dartmouth, Mass.), Abhijith Prabhu (Las Vegas), Al Gilbertson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jacob Ressler-Craig (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to methods and systems for analyzing and representing diamond appearance, and to an interactive, web-based encyclopedia of diamond ...