ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,131, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zircon Corp. (Campbell, Calif.).
"System and method for detecting objects behind an opaque surface" was invented by John Robert Stauss (Los Gatos, Calif.), Pablo Montero (San Jose, Calif.) and Micaela Abarca Kapp (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention include a system and method for detecting one or more objects detected behind an opaque surface, comprising collecting, by a plurality of sensors of a scanner, sensor data of the one or more objects behind an opaque surface; identifying, by one or more processors of the scanner, characteristics of signal st...