ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,496, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NUCTECH COMPANY Ltd. (Beijing) and Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Radiographic inspection apparatus and vehicle-mounted security inspection system" was invented by Li Zhang (Beijing), Zhiqiang Chen (Beijing), Qingping Huang (Beijing), Mingzhi Hong (Beijing), Yi Cheng (Beijing), Minghua Qiu (Beijing), Yao Zhang (Beijing), Jianxue Yang (Beijing) and Lei Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiographic inspection apparatus and a vehicle-mounted security inspection system. The radiographic inspection apparatus includes a scanning device, where the scanning device includes: an upright f...