US Patent Issued to Rapiscan Systems on July 15 for "Methods and systems for accurate visual layer separation in the displays of scanning systems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,671, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rapiscan Systems Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for accurate visual layer separation in the displays of scanning systems" was invented by Mark Procter (Wilmslow, Great Britain) and James Ollier (Huyton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification relates to a method for enabling an operator to perform visual layer separation, the method including: retrieving at least one X-ray scan image from a memory in data communication with an inspection system, wherein the image comprises a first area of pixels representative of a target object obscured by a clutte...