ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,715, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CAN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Wayzata, Minn.).

"Optimizing organic growth using spectral measurement" was invented by Eric John Eden (Champlin, Minn.), Richard Joel Faris (Nowthen, Minn.) and Delphine Marie Pierre Melchior (Crein, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring a market performance metric of an animal comprising: a sensor unit that detects an emitted spectrum from the animal wherein the sensor unit filters the received emitted spectra to a set of spectral values; and a memory unit that comprises a set of predetermined chemometric data correlated to at least the market p...