US Patent Issued to Rapiscan Holdings on May 5 for "Systems and methods for generating high-energy three-dimensional computed tomography images of bulk materials" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,998, issued on May 5, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating high-energy three-dimensional computed tomography images of bulk materials" was invented by Mark Procter (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting an object, includes: a source of X-ray radiation; a horizontal array of detectors, wherein the source and the array of detectors are positioned substantially on a first plane; a platform configured to rotate as well as translate in a vertical trajectory, wherein the platform is positioned on a second plane between the source and the array ...