ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,427, issued on July 14, was assigned to Living Optics Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Optical method" was invented by Robin Wang (Oxford, Great Britain), Alexander Spanellis (Oxford, Great Britain) and Stephen Chappell (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reconstructing a hyperspectral data cube from an encoded and/or spectrally sheared image and an unencoded and spectrally unsheared image of a scene comprises providing the encoded and/or spectrally sheared image and an unencoded and spectrally unsheared image to a neural network comprising an encoder-decoder structure having an encoder portion and a decod...