G01V 5/20
Detecting prohibited goods
Official title: Detecting prohibited goods, e.g. weapons, explosives, hazardous substances, contraband or smuggled objects
G01V5/20 (Detecting prohibited goods) appears on 1,877 US grants and 2,015 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01V- Granted patents
- 1,877
- Published applications
- 2,015
- Assignees
- 614
- Inventors
- 2,828
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 9 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 12 | 0 |
| 1992 | 16 | 0 |
| 1993 | 14 | 0 |
| 1994 | 11 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 15 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 |
| 2000 | 16 | 0 |
| 2001 | 22 | 6 |
| 2002 | 19 | 22 |
| 2003 | 23 | 25 |
| 2004 | 17 | 48 |
| 2005 | 25 | 55 |
| 2006 | 53 | 72 |
| 2007 | 45 | 87 |
| 2008 | 73 | 100 |
| 2009 | 73 | 100 |
| 2010 | 81 | 67 |
| 2011 | 58 | 91 |
| 2012 | 68 | 102 |
| 2013 | 69 | 69 |
| 2014 | 68 | 114 |
| 2015 | 107 | 108 |
| 2016 | 75 | 119 |
| 2017 | 95 | 109 |
| 2018 | 88 | 96 |
| 2019 | 128 | 92 |
| 2020 | 123 | 108 |
| 2021 | 74 | 74 |
| 2022 | 70 | 80 |
| 2023 | 63 | 83 |
| 2024 | 63 | 95 |
| 2025 | 70 | 54 |
| 2026 | 52 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Portable system comprising a primary gas flowpath, a cartridge dock including a filter cartridge, and a gamma detector apparatus for monitoring airborne radionuclides6 Oct 2026US 12,754,330 B2Atomic Energy of Canada Limited/éNergie Atomique Du Canada LimitéE
- Inspection of cargo in open-topped vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,754,344 B2Smiths Detection France S.A.S.
- Security screening device and systems and methods of using the same29 Sep 2026US 12,749,365 B2Cardiac Innovation, LLC
- Mobile radiation inspection apparatus and mobile radiation inspection system15 Sep 2026US 12,736,708 B2Nuctech (Beijing) Company Limited
- Enclosed x-ray chopper wheel8 Sep 2026US 12,730,081 B2Videray Technologies, Inc.
- Backscatter Scanning Systems with Different Detector Panel Configurations17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276858 A1American Science and Engineering, Inc.
- Covert Surveillance Using Multi-Modality Sensing17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276859 A1Rapiscan Systems, Inc.
- Detection method for detecting alarm objects in pieces of luggage10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267028 A1
- Interference-proof radiation detector20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243906 A1
- System and method for hybrid airport security screening with voluntary walk-through medical imaging20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243914 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic concealed object detection system having a pre-scan stage408US 5,367,552 AIn Vision Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- High resolution device and method for imaging concealed objects within an obscuring medium367US 6,216,540 B12001
- Detection of concealed explosives and contraband345US 5,600,303 ATechnology International Incorporated · 1997
- Identifying explosives or other contraband by employing transmitted or scattered X-rays341US 5,974,111 AVivid Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Single beam photoneutron probe and X-ray imaging system for contraband detection and identification336US 5,838,759 AAdvanced Research and Applications Corporation · 1998