Patent ID: 11940558
Assignee: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. An apparatus to obtain identity information and evaluate electromagnetic energy reflection data in view of the identity information, comprising:
a computer system, including:
a processing system having a hardware processor adapted to perform a predefined set of basic operations by loading corresponding ones of a predefined native instruction set of codes, the predefined native instruction set of codes constituting a set of instructions selectable for execution by the hardware processor;
a memory accessible to the processing system;
anomaly identifying logic, stored in the memory, comprising instructions selected from the predefined native instruction set of codes of the hardware processor, adapted to operate with the processing system to identify an anomaly and an anomaly location using electronic information of a security scan;
anomaly analyzer logic, stored in the memory, comprising instructions selected from the predefined native instruction set of codes of the hardware processor, adapted to operate with the processing system to:
determine a subset of the electronic information corresponding to the anomaly location;
determine anomaly attributes using the subset of the electronic information;
evaluate the anomaly attributes using a database of reference items, a given reference item having:
a respective identifier,
respective reference characteristics, and
a respective match criterion indicating one or more of the respective reference characteristics;
make a comparison between the anomaly attributes and the respective reference characteristics of the given reference item; and,
when a result of the comparison meets the respective match criterion for the given reference item, assign to the anomaly the respective identifier as an anomaly identifier;

a user interface adapted to output, when the result of the comparison meets the respective match criterion, the anomaly identifier; and
identity logic, stored in the memory, comprising instructions selected from the predefined native instruction set of codes of the hardware processor, adapted to operate with the processing system to:
determine an identity of a subject of the security scan;
communicate, by a communication unit via a network connection, with a database of a remote server containing stored personal information, to access identity information pertaining to the identity of the subject;
wherein the identity information includes information about the subject that had been provided by the subject and stored in the database in advance prior to the subject undergoing scanning;
determine that the identity information indicates a permitted device for that subject;
determine whether the anomaly is consistent with the permitted device for that subject; and
when the anomaly is consistent with the permitted device for that subject, assign to the anomaly a pass status.