ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,238, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TRINAMIX GMBH (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Detector for identifying at least one material property" was invented by Friedrich Schick (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Peter Schillen (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Patrick Schindler (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Andre Schmidt (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Michael Eberspach (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Christian Lennartz (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Robert Send (Karlsruhe, Germany), Lars Diesselberg (Karlsruhe, Germany), Heiko Hengen (Steinweiler, Germany), Ingmar Bruder (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Jakob Unger (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Christian Bonsignore (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the...