ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,116, issued on June 16, was assigned to Astra Navigation Inc. (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Dynamic selection of parameters for navigation" was invented by Anton Toutov (Magnolia, Texas), Alexandre Toutov (Inverary, Canada), Michael Quinsey (Montreal) and Joseph Quinsey (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a magnetic-field map of a region comprising data that represents magnetic-field values that correspond to locations in the region. The method includes accessing a sample magnetic recording comprising data that represents a time or distance series of magnetic measurements made alo...