ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,858, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QSA GLOBAL INC. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for combining thermal and/or optical imaging with digital radiographic imaging" was invented by Paul Benson (Waltham, Mass.), Jason William Bourn (Stratham, N.H.) and Joseph Ryan Lapinskas (Windham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example radiography scanning system includes: a radiation detector configured to generate digital images based on incident radiation; a radiation source configured to output the radiation toward the radiation detector; a thermal sensor configured to capture thermal images and having a field of view that ...