ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,045, issued on April 1, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEMS LTD. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for determining a characteristic of a material using an electromagnetic fingerprint" was invented by Thomas David Machin (Manchester, Great Britain) and Hsin-Yu Wei (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for determining a characteristic of a material within a region. One apparatus includes a first plurality of electrodes, a stimulation monitor monitoring an electrical parameter at a plurality of other electrodes of said first plurality of electrodes in response to an app...