ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,767, issued on March 24, was assigned to AICHI STEEL Corp. (Tokai, Japan).
"Magnetic marker detection method and detection system" was invented by Michiharu Yamamoto (Tokai, Japan), Tomohiko Nagao (Tokai, Japan) and Hitoshi Aoyama (Tokai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic marker detection system for a vehicle including sensor array with magnetic sensors arrayed in a width direction to detect a magnetic marker laid in a traveling road includes differential circuit that obtains a difference between magnetic measurement values for each combination of two magnetic sensors spaced with a predetermined space, arithmetic circuit...