US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Dec. 30 for "Single wire hit detection apparatus" (Ohio, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,333, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"Single wire hit detection apparatus" was invented by Kevin Kaplansky (Columbus, Ohio), Gregory Gregoriades (Columbus, Ohio), John P. O'Brien (Worthington, Ohio) and Greg Sisk (Hampton Cove, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to single wire hit detection, an apparatus comprises: a plurality of hit detection patches, each of the plurality of hit detection patches comprising an associated single coiled wire, and each of the plurality of hit detection patches being disposed overlapping at least one other hit detection patch of the plura...