ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,205, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Controller for an electromagnetic field detector" was invented by Liam Bussey (London), Fraser Burton (London), Amelia Winterburn (London) and Marco Menchetti (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method of controlling an electromagnetic field detector by causing a first phase shift to be applied to a second probe signal path so as to cause a variation in a change in intensity of combined first and second paths of a probe signal; obtaining data indicating a second phase shift to be applied to the second probe signal path so a...