ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,793, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Cortirio Ltd. (Sedgefield, Great Britain).

"Near-infrared imaging system for identifying a target feature in an object" was invented by Patrick Beldon (Sedgefield, Great Britain) and Paul Macey (Sedgefield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a near-infrared imaging system for identifying a target feature in an object. The system comprises a near-infrared transmitter receiver array for transmitting near-infrared radiation into the object and receiving corresponding near-infrared radiation emitted from the object and a data processing system (215) configured to proce...