ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,596, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apeel Technology Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Hyperspectral image compression using a feature extraction model" was invented by Richard Pattison (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for reducing an amount of memory required to store hyperspectral images of an object include: obtaining tensor data representing a hyperspectral image including a first portion depicting an object and a second portion depicting at least a portion of a surrounding environment where the object is located; identifying a portion of the tensor data representing the hyperspectral image...