ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,194, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium).
"Determining water content in a porous material" was invented by Paul Scheunders (Antwerp, Belgium) and Bikram Koirala (Antwerp, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining water content of a moist sample of porous material from a spectral reflectance spectrum of the moist sample is provided. The method includes obtaining (201) a hyperspectral measurement of the moist sample having the spectral reflectance spectrum (212), and a spectral response function (211) associated with the hyperspectral measurement; and det...