ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,464, issued on March 18, was assigned to Thruvision Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"High frequency detection method and apparatus" was invented by Christopher Mark Mann (Cornwall, Great Britain), Stefan Matthew Hale (Oxon, Great Britain), Leslie Owen Green (Norfolk, Great Britain) and Stephen Paul Haworth (Berks, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system and method using multiple detector arrays for single or multi-frequency imaging of an object or scene, with one or more channels arranged along perpendicular axes. A polarizing beam element can be arranged to pass or reflect radiation to first and second detec...