ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,007, issued on April 14, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for processing hyperspectral image information" was invented by Zhu Li (Overland Park, Kan.) and Paras Maharjan (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for processing hyperspectral image information. A set of hyperspectral images is obtained, and a spectrum compact representation is derived for each hyperspectral image in the set of hyperspectral images. The spectrum compact representation for each hyperspectral image in the set of hyperspectral images is encoded with a video encoder, ...