Methodologies to produce simulants of textured threat compounds

US12187661B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security · US

Inventors

• Michael Brogden
• Kevin Pedersen · Atco, US
• Ronald Krauss

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 2023
• Grant date: Jan 7, 2025
• Expiry date: Feb 18, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/227
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed towards a simulant and method relating to producing a simulant. For example, a simulant of a textured target threat includes a background material associated with a background attenuation, and a texture component(s) dispersed in the background material and associated with a component attenuation and a component characteristic. The component characteristic prevents the component attenuation of the texture component from being homogeneously dispersed throughout the background attenuation of the background material, to cause the simulant to mimic an aspect(s) of an X-ray signature of the textured target threat.