ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,463, issued on March 18, was assigned to BottleVin Inc..

"System and method for authenticating and classifying products using hyper-spectral imaging" was invented by Leslie Young Harvill (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a method for authenticating and classifying a set of materials comprises: determining a set of characteristics of light spectra reflected or transmitted by a set of materials when the set of materials is illuminated by a plurality of light wavelengths; constructing one or more classifiers configured to classify each material of the set of materials based on the set of characteri...