ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,201, issued on May 12, was assigned to Astra Navigation Inc. (The Woodlands, Texas).
"Controlling motion with magnetometers" was invented by Alexandre Toutov (Inverary, Canada) and Pavlo Borsuk (Kyiv, Ukraine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first magnetometer that measures a magnetic induction and direction of a magnetic field. The first magnetometer has a first coordinate frame that includes a first x axis, a first y axis, and a first z axis. The apparatus includes a second magnetometer that measures the magnetic induction and direction of the magnetic field. The second magnetometer has a sec...