ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,402, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LITESENTRY LLC (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Method to classify quench patterns of heat-treated coated mineral glasses and predicts the optical visibility thereof" was invented by Romain Hivet (Saint-Ouen, France) and Davide Maccariello (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method classifies quench patterns of heat-treated uncoated or coated mineral glasses and predict the optical visibility thereof. The classification method takes as input a set of optical retardation image-maps of heat-treated coated mineral glasses, a set of optical visibility scores for quench pat...