ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,851, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ushio Denki K.K. (Tokyo).

"Tablet spectroscopic measurement method" was invented by Aya Ota (Tokyo) and Go Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a high-speed and high-accuracy tablet spectroscopic measurement technology that enables total inspection. A pulsed light irradiation system irradiates a tablet being linearly moved by a movement mechanism with pulsed light in which an elapsed time in each pulse and a wavelength correspond to each other on a one-to-one basis, the output from a light receiver that has received transmission light from the tablet is input to a calculatio...