Talk:InVision Technologies

Rationale for still noting the company is defunct (despite the IP being active under Smiths Group)

So, it seems to me that parts of this company are still technically very much alive. It was absorbed by GE and renamed GE InVision, then renamed Homeland Protection, then sold to Safran and renamed Morpho Detection, then split up and sold again to Smiths Group. As far as I can tell, Smiths Group still hasn't sold the intellectual property and still maintains the contracts, while OSI Systems purchased the trace detection element that was originally tacked to InVision by GE.

So. Not dead. But the subsequent companies don't seem independently notable to me (no exciting lawsuits or dramatic controversies over performance, like InVision had in the early 2000s, at least that my research has found so far), and so I don't see much harm in just having those later iterations redirected either here, or to the parent companies and maybe some of their subsidiaries sections.

But, I think for the purposes of this page, and infobox, and categories and such, just considering InVision Technology as considered defunct the moment GE gobbled it up will serve readers just fine. Not that I see any harm in doing research on recent names, and adding that content here, to the Post-GE ownership section. ~2026-36566-13 (talk) 21:48, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Lol I'm just going to steal my own summary for the lead, as a placeholder. ~2026-36318-30 (talk) 21:55, 23 June 2026 (UTC)