US Patent Issued to THE PITTSBURGH PAINTS on April 14 for "Systems, methods, and interfaces for identifying coating surfaces" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,937, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE PITTSBURGH PAINTS COMPANY (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Systems, methods, and interfaces for identifying coating surfaces" was invented by Francis J. Groves (McMurray, Pa.), Kathleen M. Chrobak (Fombell, Pa.) and William R. Wright (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for dynamically parsing a digital image to identify coating surfaces can receive a user-provided input comprising an indication of a particular environment, and a user-provided digital image of an environment. The computer system can also identify, with an image recognition module, one or more objects wi...