US Patent Issued to Rapiscan Holdings on Nov. 18 for "Systems and a method of improved material classification using energy-integrated backscatter detectors" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,282, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and a method of improved material classification using energy-integrated backscatter detectors" was invented by Mark Procter (Wilmslow, Great Britain) and Sarah Louise Fisher (Woking, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification describes a system of acquiring spectral information from backscatter scan data acquired using a detector panel having an array of 'm' spatially distributed, independent detector assemblies or modules an array of 'n' filters positioned over the array of detector assemblies or modules. In some ...