ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,290, issued on March 24, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Techniques for composition identification of an anatomical target" was invented by Vladimir Polejaev (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for calibrating an optical sensor system of a composition identification system are provided. In an example, a method can include receiving light at an optical sensor of the optical sensor system from a reference target, determining a first spectral response of the light across a range of wavelengths, determining whether a first spectral intensity corresponding to a first wavelength of the spect...