ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,409, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AMS SENSORS GERMANY GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"Multichannel color sensor" was invented by Gunter Siess (Jena, Germany) and Julius Komma (Kraftsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated radiation sensor for color matching functions comprises a plurality of color matching channels, each color matching channel comprising a radiation sensing element and an associated optical filter defining a spectral sensitivity profile corresponding to a color matching function. The sensors comprise a plurality of compensation channels, each compensation channel comprising a radiation sensing element...