US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on March 17 for "Method for predicting a feedstuff and/or feedstuff raw material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,266, issued on March 17, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Method for predicting a feedstuff and/or feedstuff raw material" was invented by Ingolf Reimann (Reinheim, Germany), Joachim Reising (Kleinostheim, Germany) and Christoph Muller (Offenbach am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for predicting a feedstuff and/or feedstuff raw material is described. The method comprises providing a near infrared (NIR) spectrum of a sample of an unknown feedstuff raw material and/or feedstuff. The absorption intensities of wavelengths or wavenumbers in the spectrum are transformed t...