ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,862, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to 11886827 Canada Ltd. (CentrePort, Canada).
"Magnetic platform for sample orientation" was invented by David Allan Prystupa (Pinawa, Canada), John Stephen Pacak (Winnipeg, Canada) and Peter Condie Nell (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for positioning and orienting a platform such as a sample or workpiece relative to a frame of reference where the platform is a complex magnetic object that contains at least two magnetic domains with non-collinear magnetic moments and the method includes generating a spatially and temporally varying magnetic field so that each ...