ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,387, issued on June 9, was assigned to SARINE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Israel).
"System and method for evaluating and determining color in gemstones" was invented by Zvi Ioffe (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ariel Danan (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Amiram Eldar (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for the automatic grading of a cut/polished gemstone (SUT) includes an enclosure with a stage for mounting the cut/polished SUT. The enclosure further includes one or more sources of broadband visible (BBV) light, the sources of BBV light being controllable by a programmable controller; an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of a mounted...