US Patent Issued to Analogic on Sept. 30 for "Bypass of items in a security lane of a security checkpoint" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,241, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Analogic Corp. (Peabody, Mass.).

"Bypass of items in a security lane of a security checkpoint" was invented by Andrew Iannetti (Danvers, Mass.), Sevag Minas Zoboyan (Wakefield, Mass.), Steven Urchuk (Melrose, Mass.) and Tom Ripp (Amherst, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security lane for security checkpoint includes an x-ray scanner system, a conveyor system, and a side buffer. The x-ray scanner system may be configured to determine threat status of items at least partially based on image data of the item; The conveyor system may be configured to move items along a primary path and move...