ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,480, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUANTUM IP LLC (Stuart, Fla.).

"RF-based special material detection system with secure multi-dimensional authentication" was invented by Robert J. Short Jr. (Stuart, Fla.), Lee Duke (Stuart, Fla.), John Cronin (Stuart, Fla.), Michael D'Andrea (Stuart, Fla.) and Harrison Grant (Stuart, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes accessing a material database associating each of a plurality of materials with one or more corresponding resonance frequencies; for each material of at least a subset of the plurality of materials in the material database: transmitting, via an RF transmitter, ...