ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,404, issued on July 29, was assigned to Spectricity (Mechelen, Belgium).

"Illuminant correction in an imaging system" was invented by Jonathan Borremans (Lier, Belgium), Ruben Lieten (Heverlee, Belgium), Ward van der Tempel (Keerbergen, Belgium), Maarten De Bock (Ghent, Belgium) and Jakub Raczkowski (Bertem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method begins by generating a received light spectrum at time T1 for a scene using a spectral imager that includes a plurality of spectral sensors, where a spectral sensor includes a spectral filter overlaying one or more first optical sensors and the sensing range for the plurality of spe...