ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,062, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Minelab Electronics Pty Ltd. (Mawson Lakes, Australia).
"Metal detector" was invented by Bruce Halcro Candy (Mawson Lakes, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method to detect a target using a metal detector. The method includes transmitting a repeating sequence of transmitted magnetic field into an environment. The repeating sequence of transmitted magnetic field is generated by a repeating sequence of transmitted electrical current flowing through a transmit inductive winding such that the repeating sequence of transmitted electrical current includes at least a first period...