ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,465, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Hyperspectral imaging device" was invented by Kai Ojala (Espoo, Finland) and Heikki Saari (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectral imaging device comprises: an optical modifier system (SYS1) to form axial light beams (LB2) from received light beams (LB1), the axial light beams (LB2) being parallel with an optical axis (AX1) of the imaging device (500), a Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) to provide filtered axial light beams (LB3) by filtering light of the axial light beams (LB2), an image sensor (SEN1), and an array (ARR1) of ...