ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,926, issued on Jan. 20.

"System and method for de-personalized security data file sharing using unique passenger identifier" was invented by Craig Mateer (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method for de-personalized security data file sharing using a unique passenger identifier, the method including: obtaining, from an IATA, passenger data including a unique passenger identifier (UPID) linked to a check-in passenger and a unique baggage identifier for a checked-in luggage item of the passenger; depersonalizing the passenger data; retrieving a security screening image (SSI) representative of content...