ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,940, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PHARMA TECHNOLOGY (Thines, Belgium).

"Measurement equipment for spectroscopic analysis of individual moving objects" was invented by Freddy Vandenbroucke (Roux, Belgium) and Martial Dollinger (Braine l'Alleud, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measurement equipment can be used for control with spectroscopic analysis of individual moving objects. The measurement equipment includes a probe with a surface, from which one or more illumination optical fibres and measurement optical fibres emerge. The optical fibres are arranged so that at least one of the second acceptance cones intersects at lea...