ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,541, issued on March 17, was assigned to JLG INDUSTRIES INC. (McConnellsburg, Pa.).

"Surface finish quality evaluation system and method" was invented by Maria J. Telleria (San Francisco), Kevin B. Albert (San Francisco), Irene M. Davis (San Francisco), Henry Tonoyan (San Francisco), Gabriel F. Hein (San Francisco), Zelda Othenin-Girard (San Francisco) and Jason De Alba (Richmond, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface evaluation system that includes one or more vision systems that generate target surface data during evaluation of a surface, the one or more vision systems comprising two or more of: at least one light, a cam...