ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,335, issued on April 29, was assigned to MATRIXSPEC SOLUTIONS INC. (Baie D'Urfe, Canada).

"Systems, devices, and methods for detecting fertility and gender of unhatched eggs" was invented by Michael Ngadi (Pierrefonds, Canada), Li Liu (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada) and Chen Zheng (Vaughan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for detecting characteristics of an unhatched egg. A set of images of an unhatched egg are obtained, where each of the spectral images is obtained in a particular wavelength range. The set of images is processed to extract image features, where the image features in...