US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on July 15 for "Position monitoring system and method" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,507, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Position monitoring system and method" was invented by Matthew R. Aderholdt (Vineland, N.J.) and Lee J. Spanier (Linwood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a monitoring method for screening an individual, the monitoring method comprising: performing a pre-checkpoint monitoring of a stance of the individual as the individual's stance to collect baseline data including weight distribution and balance of the individual as the individual's weight distribution and bala...