ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,095, issued on May 12, was assigned to Viken Detection Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).
"X-ray scanner with blanking" was invented by James P. Ryan (Bedford, Mass.) and John P. O'Connor (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray scanning system includes: an X-ray source configured to irradiate a target with source X-rays in the course of relative motion between the X-ray source and the target; a feature sensor configured to sense a feature of the target in the course of the relative motion; and a communication interface operatively coupled to the feature sensor and configured to output a blanking signal responsive to the featur...