ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,218, issued on June 24, was assigned to JASCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Spectrum measuring device suitable for evaluating difference between spectra" was invented by Satoko Suzuki (Tokyo), Taiji Oyama (Tokyo), Yoshiro Kondo (Tokyo), Hisashi Masago (Tokyo), Yasuo Horiguchi (Tokyo) and Koshi Nagamori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on an HT voltage value of each data point applied to a light detector and a plurality of reference spectra measured, in measurement of a reference substance performed for a plurality of times, a weighting function deriver of a spectrum measuring device derives a relation between the HT voltage value (HTi) ...