ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,587, issued on Sept. 15.
"Metal detection system" was invented by Matthew Miller (Edgewater, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a metal detector configured to provide an input signal responsive to being proximate an object; and a processing device configured to: receive the input signal from the metal detector; determine a plurality of features from the input signal; provide the plurality of features as input to a trained machine learning model (MLM); receive output from the trained MLM; and responsive to detection, based on the output, that the object comprises metal, cause output of a notification."
The patent...