ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,184, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for generating hyperspectral artificial vision for machines" was invented by Shailesh Shankar Deshpande (Pune, India), Karan Sharad Owalekar (Thane West, India), Apoorva Khanna (New Delhi), Mahesh Kshirsagar (Mumbai, India) and Balamuralidhar Purushothaman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein provide a method and system for a hyperspectral artificial vision for machines. The system receives a hyperspectral signal of a target material as an input to a neural network model. The system initializes by ...