ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,643, issued on March 18.

"Portable detection system comprising magnetostatic sensors" was invented by Alessandro Manneschi (Arezzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a target object including: a first and a second detector which have magnetic sensors configured to detect a magnetic field and to generate a signal which indicates a magnetic field intensity; a processing unit configured to receive the signals which indicate an intensity of a magnetic field detected by the sensors; and a communication interface which is configured to transmit the signals generated by the magnetic sensors to the processing unit,...