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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2022
Headwall Photonics Inc., Bolton, MA (US);
Kwok-Keung Wong, Bolton, MA (US);
Headwall Photonics Inc., Bolton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for determining a quality condition of an agricultural product comprises: receiving a received light at a light detector, the received light comprising reflected, scattered, refracted, and/or deflected light from the agricultural product; transmitting the received light to a spectrometer; producing agricultural product (AP) spectral data of the received light using the spectrometer; with a computer in electrical communication with the spectrometer, comparing the AP spectral data to reference spectral data to determine whether the agricultural product has the quality condition, the reference spectral data corresponding to known quality conditions of the agricultural product; and with the computer, generating an output signal corresponding to the quality condition of the agricultural product.