ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,269, issued on March 18, was assigned to White Eagle Sonic Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for scanning for a second object within a first object using an adaptive scheduler" was invented by Richard Tobias (San Jose, Calif.), Bicheng Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ashish Parikh (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for scanning for second object on or within first object starts by receiving information on first object and second object. Task lists are generated that include at least one task action based on information on first object and second object. Based on task lists, beamer is then sign...