ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,433, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Methods for lifting and lowering magnetic anomalies for magnetic navigation" was invented by Blaise Morton (Minnetonka, Minn.), Paul Samanant (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Trevor Keith Stephens (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Robert Compton (Loretto, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for magnetic navigation are provided. The system comprises a navigation system for a vehicle, at least one processor operatively coupled with the navigation system, and a magnetic navigation module operatively coupled with the processor. The magnetic navigat...