ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,522, issued on May 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Signal processing method, signal processing device, and imaging system" was invented by Motoki Yako (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing method is performed by a computer. The signal processing method includes: obtaining first compressed image data including hyperspectral information and indicating a two-dimensional image in which the hyperspectral information is compressed, the hyperspectral information being luminance information on each of at least four wavelengt...