US Patent Issued to CHERTOFF GROUP on July 15 for "Transportation security apparatus, system, and method to analyze images to detect a threat condition" (Virginia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,281, issued on July 15, was assigned to CHERTOFF GROUP LLC (Washington).

"Transportation security apparatus, system, and method to analyze images to detect a threat condition" was invented by Lee Kair (Fairfax, Va.) and Bennet Waters (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a transportation security technique, images are stored that are received from image capturing equipment deployed at respective screening nodes. The images are analyzed using a machine learning model, where presence of a particular object in an image indicates that a threat condition exists at the screening node. The analyzed images are transmitted to threat...