US Patent Issued to X-RITE on Aug. 25 for "Multi-use color measurement instrument with live view of target surface" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,411, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to X-RITE Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Multi-use color measurement instrument with live view of target surface" was invented by Matthew Knoll (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Michael Weber (Rockford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color measurement instrument for measuring colors of areas of interest of a target object, according to one aspect of the present invention, includes a spectral engine, a color camera, a display, and a processor. The spectral engine has a first field of view. The camera has a second field of view, the second field of view being larger than the first field of view and en...