ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,800, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for receiving signals from a magneto-mechanical oscillator" was invented by Bernhard Gleich (Hamburg, Germany), Jurgen Erwin Rahmer (Hamburg, Germany), Ingo Schmale (Hamburg, Germany), Tim Nielsen (Hamburg, Germany) and Richard Moessel (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for receiving signals from a magneto-mechanical oscillator includes a main coil array adapted to receive a response signal of the magneto-mechanical oscillator and to transmit an excitation signal to the magneto-mechanical oscillator, and an additi...