ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,814, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Material spectroscopy" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jonathan Diedrich (Carleton, Mich.), Hamid M. Golgiri (Livonia, Mich.), Hemanth Yadav Aradhyula (Dearborn, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to acquire a first image by illuminating a first object with a first light beam, segment the first image of the first object to determine regions that correspond to a first surfac...