ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,527, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Spectricity (Mechelen, Belgium).

"Imaging system using spatially separated spectral arrays" was invented by Jonathan Borremans (Lier, Belgium) and Maarten De Bock (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for imaging includes an array of optical sensors having a respective top surface and a respective bottom surface and a first plurality of sets of optical filters, each set of optical filters of the first plurality of sets of optical filters being associated with a respective set of optical sensors of the array. The system further includes a second plurality of sets of optical filte...