US Patent Issued to Altria Client Services on Feb. 10 for "Blending of agricultural products via hyperspectral imaging and analysis" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,654, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Altria Client Services LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Blending of agricultural products via hyperspectral imaging and analysis" was invented by Seetharama C. Deevi (Midlothian, Va.), Henry M. Dante (Midlothian, Va.), Qiwei Liang (Midlothian, Va.) and Samuel Timothy Henry (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for blending of agricultural product utilizing hyperspectral imaging. At least one region along a sample of agricultural product is scanned using at least one light source of different wavelengths. Hyperspectral images are generated from the at least one region. A spectr...