US Patent Issued to VITO on July 7 for "Method and system for performing characterization of one or more materials" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,000, issued on July 7, was assigned to VITO NV (Mol, Belgium).

"Method and system for performing characterization of one or more materials" was invented by Roeland Geurts (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing characterization of one or more materials. The one or more materials are scanned by means of a sensory unit including an x-ray sensor for obtaining at least one x-ray image. Segmentation of the at least one x-ray image is performed in order to separate one or more distinct objects in the at least one x-ray image. In the at least one x-ray image, segmented objects are selected. For each of...