ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,040, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for imaging of lensless hyperspectral image" was invented by Min Hyuk Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Daniel Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a hyperspectral imaging method and an apparatus thereof. A method of reconstructing a hyperspectral image includes receiving an image photographed through a diffractive optical element and reconstructing a hyperspectral image of the received image based on the received image and information about a point spread function for ea...