ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,251, issued on May 27, was assigned to Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai).

"Method for processing hyperspectral images" was invented by Yin-Nian Liu (Qidong, China), Yue Xu (Qidong, China), De-Xin Sun (Qidong, China) and Jian Liang (Qidong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a hyperspectral image, comprising: a first correction step for extracting a curve of spectral dimension of an initial spaceborne hyperspectral cube image for low-pass filtering so as to obtain initial correction coefficients; an optimization step for optimizing and compensating the initial cor...