Justice Minister David Ford has written to the Justice Committee to outline what progress has been made in finding "an effective and less intrusive method other than full-body searching for prisoners leaving and entering prison".
While there have been other patents awarded on treatment methods, Singer said, they require doctors to use a new method of diagnosis or a new method to measure some level in the body.
His device will use Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), a medical imaging method in which images are produced quickly using electrodes placed around the body, to detect changes or abnormalities in the brain.
But what makes Sorger's method stand out is the difference in how it approaches the problem of scaling to the human body: the Swift scales, where other bicycles may simply get taller without increasing the wheel base.