ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,709, issued on May 27, was assigned to Life Detection Technologies Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Computation of parameters of a body using an electric field" was invented by Eric Carlin Howie (Henderson, Nev.), Mark Bradford Flowers (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tandhoni Srinivasa Rao (Charlestown, Mass.), Orville Rey Rule III (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Darpan Dinesh Damani (Milpitas, Calif.), Guy McIlroy (Los Gatos, Calif.), John Robert Haggis (San Jose, Calif.), John Bertram Langley II (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Steven Sven Fastert (Chelmsford, Mass.), William Frederick Ellersick (Hampton, N.H.) and Dwight David Birdsall (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. ...