US Patent Issued to TRITEK TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Mail processing system with a mail hazard screening machine" (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,793, issued on April 15, was assigned to TRITEK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Mail processing system with a mail hazard screening machine" was invented by James Malatesta (Hockessin, Del.), Kurt Hecht (Rydal, Pa.) and Edward Cohen (Mount Laurel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mail hazard screening machine is configured to compress mail pieces or envelops through compression rollers and draw out this air and any hazard that may have been contained in the envelope. The system may be able to detect a wide range of hazards such as chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear, explosive and drugs, abbreviated CBRNE+D. The sam...