ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,070, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SENSOR COATING SYSTEMS Ltd. (London).

"Detection system and method" was invented by Jorg Peter Feist (London), Solon Karagiannopoulos (London), Christopher Charles Pilgrim (Bickington, Great Britain) and Pierre Sollazzo (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system for detecting an optical signal from a luminescent material applied to or incorporated within an object comprises: at least one light source which generates light, as excitation light, for illuminating at least a region of the object; at least one detector which detects light, as collection light, from the...