ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,228, issued on April 7, was assigned to MYDIMODA INC. (The Colony, Texas).

"Textile matching using color and pattern recognition and methods of use" was invented by Terrence A. Carroll (The Colony, Texas), Peter Hussami (Debrecen, Hungary), Andras Kalecz-Simon (Budapest, Hungary) and Bin Jin (Tumen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Textile matching using color and pattern recognition and methods of use are provided herein. An example method includes analyzing an image of a first article of clothing to obtain color information and pattern information, comparing the color information and pattern information of the first article of ...