ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,636, issued on July 21, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of generating image data for dangerous object detection and imaging system using the same" was invented by Sungwoo Jo (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Il Min Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Mugeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jungsoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Eui Su Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Da Hye Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image data generating method. Operations of emitting electromagnetic waves to an object and receiving scan s...