US Patent Issued to RUBENS IP on July 8 for "Detecting plant product properties" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,689, issued on July 8, was assigned to RUBENS IP PTY LTD (Rowville, Australia).

"Detecting plant product properties" was invented by Daniele Pelliccia (Rowville, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting at least one property of a plant product, the method including: directing source light including ultraviolet (UV) light at UV wavelengths and polarized visible and/or near-infrared (VIS/NIR) light at VIS/NIR wavelengths onto a region of the plant product; blocking the polarized VIS/NIR light of the source light, and blocking polarized specular reflection from the region of the plant product, from being transmitte...