ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,487, issued on June 23, was assigned to ENDOMAGNETICS LTD. (Great Britain).

"Magnetic probe apparatus" was invented by Simon Richard Hattersley (Bickley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for locating magnetic material. In one embodiment the system includes a magnetic probe; a power module in electrical communication with the magnetic probe to supply current to the magnetic probe; a sense module in electrical communication with the magnetic probe to receive signals from the magnetic probe; and a computer in electrical communication with the power module and the sense module. The computer generates a wav...