ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,353, issued on April 8, was assigned to TriEye Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for utilizing SWIR sensing in cleaning machines" was invented by Dan Kuzmin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avraham Bakal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Uriel Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Omer Kapach (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for utilizing SWIR sensing in automated cleaning machines including a first illumination source for emitting radiation at a first wavelength in the SWIR towards a FOV, a receiver operating in the SWIR to acquire SWIR image data based on radiation reflected from elements located in the FOV and determining...