ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,997, issued on May 12, was assigned to Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro (Bari, Italy).

"Hyperspectral imaging device and method" was invented by Milena D'Angelo (Bari, Italy), Augusto Garuccio (Bari, Italy), Gianlorenzo Massaro (Bari, Italy) and Francesco Vincenzo Pepe (Bari, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hyperspectral imaging device and method disclosed herein overcomes technical problems associated with the prior art by replacing the intensity measurement performed by the single high-resolution 2D sensor of state-of-the-art methodologies, with the measurement of intensity (fluctuation) correlations retrieved by two ...