ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,387, issued on March 18, was assigned to Elbit Systems Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"System and method for determining a configuration of a measurement volume" was invented by Evgeni Gurovich (Haifa, Israel) and Yoav Ophir (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a configuration of a measurement volume, the method may include: generating, by at least one transmitter, a transmitted magnetic field within the measurement volume; measuring, by at least one receiver positioned, a total magnetic field in the measurement volume at at least one receiver position and generating at least one receiver output signal; gener...