US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, SafetySpect on April 15 for "Active illumination-based multispectral contamination sanitation inspection system" (Maryland, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,612, issued on April 15, was assigned to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington) and SafetySpect Inc. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

"Active illumination-based multispectral contamination sanitation inspection system" was invented by Moon S Kim (Ashton, Md.), Jianwei Qin (Ellicott City, Md.), Diane E Chan (Odenton, Md.), Lyndel Meinhardt (College Park, Md.), Insuck Baek (Burtonsville, Md.), Kenneth Barton (Palm City, Fla.) and Fartash Vasefi (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The contamination sanitation inspection system (CSIS) allows a user to capture an image of a large s...