ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,963, issued on June 30, was assigned to GrayMatter Robotics Inc. (Gardena, Calif.).

"System and method for autonomous application of a coating to a workpiece" was invented by Avadhoot L. Ahire (Gardena, Calif.), Miguel A. Chavez-Garcia (Long Beach, Calif.), Satyandra K. Gupta (Los Angeles), Ariyan M. Kabir (Los Angeles), Ashish Kulkarni (Long Beach, Calif.), Ceasar G. Navarro (Los Angeles), Sagarkumar J. Panchal (Los Angeles), Martin G. Philo (Long Beach, Calif.), Christian A. Salinas (Los Angeles), Brual C. Shah (San Pedro, Calif.), Achille Verheye (La Jolla, Calif.), Jeano J. Vincent (Los Angeles) and Murilo M. Zelic (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by ...