ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,517, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automated detection of chemical component of moving object" was invented by Daniel Rosenfeld (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Holiday (Brookfield, Wis.), Gearoid Murphy (San Jose, Calif.), Allen Richard Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.), Hongxu Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Cyrus Behroozi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Derek Werdenberg (Dublin, Calif.), Jie Jacquot (San Carlos, Calif.) and Vadim Tschernezki (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image data is obtained that indicates an extent to which one or more objects reflect, scatter, or absorb light ...