ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,893, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CHERTOFF GROUP LLC (Washington) and IDSS HOLDINGS INC. (Boxborough, Mass.).

"Secure networking techniques for acquisition and transmission of images" was invented by Lee R. Kair (Fairfax, Va.), Jeffery J. Hamel (Methuen, Mass.), Daniel S. Poder (Brookline, Mass.), Metin K. Alaybeyoglu (Clarksburg, Md.), George M. Hardy III (Seminole, Fla.), James M. Connelly (Medford, Mass.) and Edward M. Olin Jr. (Andover, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remote identification of security threats in an imaged object including transmitting an initialization signal to a first threat detection scan...