US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on July 1 for "Augmented reality security screening and dynamic step-by-step guidance and communication" (Virginia, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,985, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Augmented reality security screening and dynamic step-by-step guidance and communication" was invented by William Hastings (Billings, Mont.), James Matt Gilkeson (Alexandria, Va.) and Mara Winn (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to enhance security screening includes generating an augmented reality (AR) interface incorporating scan results from scanning a target in a security scanner. The method displays, to a user of an AR interface, the AR interface mapped to th...