US Patent Issued to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES on Sept. 1 for "Methods of tobacco classification via hyperspectral imaging" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,248, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC (Richmond, Va.).

"Methods of tobacco classification via hyperspectral imaging" was invented by Amrita Sahu (Richmond, Va.), Evan Haase (Hencrico, Va.), Henry Dante (Midlothian, Va.), Maurice Stancil (Washington), William C Wilkinson (Powhatan, Va.) and Austin Hayes (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of classifying tobacco include imaging tobacco with an imaging system to obtain an image and classifying the tobacco as very low nicotine (VLN) or traditional based on the obtained image. The imaging system includes a hyperspectral camera and an image pr...