US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on Aug. 5 for "On-line oil and foreign matter detection system and method employing hyperspectral imaging" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,248, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"On-line oil and foreign matter detection system and method employing hyperspectral imaging" was invented by Henry M. Dante (Midlothian, Va.), Samuel Timothy Henry (Richmond, Va.) and Seetharama C. Deevi (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing foreign matter from an agricultural product stream of a manufacturing process. The method includes conveying a product stream past an inspection station; scanning a region of the agricultural product stream as it passes the inspection station using at least one light source of a singl...