US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on Oct. 14 for "Scanners to characterize and distinguish anomalies based on multiple mode scans and scan time thresholds" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,200, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Scanners to characterize and distinguish anomalies based on multiple mode scans and scan time thresholds" was invented by John Fortune (Clifton, Va.), Brian Lewis (Washington) and Michelle Weinberger (Fairfax City, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method to characterize an anomaly includes obtaining information about an item using a first mode scan and detecting whether the item contains an anomaly based on the information. The method further includes determining, respon...