US Patent Issued to Gemological Institute of America Inc. (GIA) on Oct. 27 for "Imaging assisted scanning spectroscopy for gem identification" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,962, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Gemological Institute of America Inc. (GIA) (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Imaging assisted scanning spectroscopy for gem identification" was invented by Tsung-Han Tsai (Maywood, N.J.) and Hiroshi Takahashi (Morristown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods here may be used for automated capturing and analyzing spectrometer data of multiple sample gemstones on a stage, including mapping digital camera image data of samples, applying a Raman Probe to a first sample gemstone under evaluation on the stage, receiving spectrometer data of the sample gemstone from the probe, automatically mov...