ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,918, issued on July 8, was assigned to Evolv Technologies Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Suppression of interference in threat detection" was invented by Alec Rose (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving data characterizing a signal obtained by a plurality of magnetic field receivers, the signal formed of a combination of a first magnetic field, a second magnetic field resulting from interaction of the first magnetic field and a first object, and a third signal resulting from motion of receivers within the first magnetic field and/or an external magnetic field other than the first magnetic field. The method...