ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,265, issued on July 15, was assigned to Decision Sciences International Corp. (Poway, Calif.).
"Charged particle scanners" was invented by Robert D. Penny (San Diego), Michael James Sossong (Ramona, Calif.), Matthew Steiger (El Cajon, Calif.) and Young K. Lee (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volume interrogation system can use an accelerated beam of charged particles to interrogate objects using charged-particle attenuation and scattering tomography to screen items such as portable electronic devices, packages, baggage, industrial products, or food products for the presence of materials of interest inside. The exemplary sy...