ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,933, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hunan University (Changsha, China).

"Pharmaceutical hyperspectral reconstruction method based on coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging system" was invented by Yaonan Wang (Changsha, China), Zhongwei Chen (Changsha, China), Jianxu Mao (Changsha, China), Hui Zhang (Changsha, China), Caiping Liu (Changsha, China), Xuesan Su (Changsha, China), Hui Miao (Changsha, China), Yurong Chen (Changsha, China), Ating Yin (Changsha, China) and Bingrui Zhao (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmaceutical hyperspectral reconstruction method based on a coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging...