ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,342, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lassen Peak Inc. (North Bend, Wash.).
"Systems and methods for noninvasive detection of impermissible objects" was invented by Hatch Graham (North Bend, Wash.), Ehsan Afshari (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Karl Triebes (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ryan Kearny (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a coherent radar system on a single chip that operates in a range of operation in a terahertz range, where the range of operation is between approximately 0.1 THz and 1 THz."
The patent was filed on June 22, 2023, under Application No. 18/212,761.
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