US Patent Issued to Uster Technologies on April 21 for "Optically characterizing a textile fiber structure" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,514, issued on April 21, was assigned to Uster Technologies AG (Uster, Switzerland).

"Optically characterizing a textile fiber structure" was invented by Mario Siegenthaler (Herdern, Switzerland) and Ulf Schneider (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for optically characterizing a textile fiber structure. A plurality of pieces of information on the color at different locations of the textile fiber structure are detected by an optical sensor system. The detected color information is transmitted to a computer (107) and is entered into a color space (2) in the form of...