US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 18 for "Systems and methods for magnetic interference correction" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,174, issued on March 18, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for magnetic interference correction" was invented by Ron Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Navigation systems and methods for magnetic interference correction involve antennae that generate magnetic fields at different frequencies, sensors that measure the magnetic fields, and a computing device that uses sensor measurements to determine the magnetic interference and produce accurate sensor position and orientation information."

The patent was filed on April 1, 2024, under Applica...