US Patent Issued to Northern Digital on July 21 for "Reconfigurable transmitter array for electromagnetic tracking systems" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,410, issued on July 21, was assigned to Northern Digital Inc. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Reconfigurable transmitter array for electromagnetic tracking systems" was invented by Mark Robert Schneider (Williston, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic tracking system is configured to determine an object pose of a tracked object in an environment of the magnetic tracking system. The tracking system includes a transmitter assembly that includes a transmitting coil configured to generate a magnetic signal indicative of an object pose of a tracked object with respect to the transmitter assembly and a marker that visually identifies a pose ...