ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,469, issued on Dec. 30.

"Portable multifunction spectroscopy analyzer" was invented by Ivan Araujo Dayrell (Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectroscopy analyzer for the identification of substances contained in a sample using a set of spectroscopy techniques and methods using a single device that can be configured to conduct a variety of tests using multiple optical devices and elements. The results are combined in a consolidated sample diagnostic profile that can then be compared with benchmark information produced from other spectroscopy analysis results downloaded from external databases and interpreted us...