ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,234, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUANTUMP IP LLC (Stuart, Fla.).
"RF-based material identification systems and methods" was invented by Robert J. Short Jr. (Stuart, Fla.) and Lee Duke (Stuart, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for material detection and identification includes an interface configured to access a material database associating each of a plurality of materials with one or more corresponding resonance frequencies; an RF transmitter configured to, for each material of at least a subset of the plurality of materials in the material database, transmit into an environment an RF signal at a first resonance f...