ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,881, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Magnetic field nulling" was invented by Roch Andrzejewski (Manchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for nulling a magnetic field within a nulling region in an external ambient magnetic field comprising a plurality of separate magnetic field generating elements 102 are located at separate respective locations surrounding the nulling region for generating respective nulling magnetic fields extending into the nulling region. A plurality of magnetic field sensing elements 103 are positioned at a plurality of respective separate locations wi...