US Patent Issued to Minelab Electronics on Sept. 30 for "Magnetic field antenna of a metal detector" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,620, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Minelab Electronics Pty Ltd. (Mawson Lakes, Australia).

"Magnetic field antenna of a metal detector" was invented by Bruce Halcro Candy (Mawson Lakes, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held metal detector coil, including a coil housing which houses aggregate transmit windings and aggregate receive windings. The aggregate transmit windings include a major group of transmit windings that includes a first transmit winding, and the aggregate receive windings include a major group of receive windings that includes a first receive winding; the coil further includes a minor group of wi...