ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,850, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TIAMA (St. Genis-Laval, France).

"Optical-computing device and method for analysing light passing through a container made of transparent or translucent material by means of a digital polarimetric camera" was invented by Raphael Druetto (Oullins, France), Marc Leconte (Loire sur Rhone, France) and Yann Pensec (Chaponost, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optical-computing device and method for analysing a container made of transparent or translucent material by means of a polarimetric camera, including: -acquiring at least one master digital image of the containe...