ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,238, issued on June 10, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Hyperspectral light source" was invented by Heikki Saari (Espoo, Finland), Christer Holmlund (Espoo, Finland) and Ingmar Stuns (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hyperspectral light source system, comprising a broadband light source arranged to generate and radiate a broadband light signal, a rotating multi bandpass filter arranged to pass through a part of the broadband light signal on one of multiple passbands of the hyperspectral light source system, w...