ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,033, issued on April 8, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Snapshot hyperspectral imaging method with de-blurring dispersed images" was invented by Xun Cao (Jiangsu, China), Ye Huang (Jiangsu, China), Xia Hua (Jiangsu, China) and Xiaowen Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snapshot hyperspectral imaging method includes the steps of: S1, selecting a set of reference wavelengths for calibration, rectifying the shifted positions due to dispersion at each reference wavelength, and selecting a center wavelength; S2, estimating relative dispersion at each reconstructed wavelength with respect to the cente...