ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,947, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Seetrue Screening Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Detection of a concealed prohibited material in an item, using image processing" was invented by Koren Beiser (Kfar Saba, Israel), Yuval Amsterdam (Kfar Hess, Israel) and Assaf Frenkel (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods comprising obtaining an image of at least a part of an item, obtaining data informative of a pixel intensity of the part of the item in the image, obtaining first data informative of a pixel intensity in an image of a part of a first item associated with a prohibited material, ...