ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,247, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nuctech Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"System and method for positioning suspected article" was invented by Zhiqiang Chen (Beijing), Li Zhang (Beijing), Yuanjing Li (Beijing), Qingping Huang (Beijing), Yingjia Xu (Beijing), Hui Ding (Beijing), Yong Zhou (Beijing), Junhao Liu (Beijing) and Weijun Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a system and a method for positioning a suspected article. The system includes a truss indicating mechanism defining a coordinate system having X, Y and Z directions perpendicular to each other. The truss indicating mechani...