ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,531, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to e.SIC GmbH (Dornach, Germany).
"AI-based automated classification and determination of material properties of objects" was invented by Josef Johann Valentin Mullner (Pilsen, Czech Republic), Martin Markert (Erfurt, Germany) and Sebastian Johannes Brehme (Ilmenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For determining one or more material properties of an object (10), radiation of different wavelength ranges from at least one radiation source (2) is projected onto the object (10), in a temporal sequence, one wavelength at a time. The different wavelength ranges of radiation projected onto the obje...