US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AICHI STEEL on Aug. 26 for "Magnetic sensor and biomagnetism measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,233, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Japan) and AICHI STEEL Corp. (Japan).

"Magnetic sensor and biomagnetism measuring apparatus" was invented by Ippei Akita (Ibaraki, Japan), Michiharu Yamamoto (Aichi, Japan), Hitoshi Aoyama (Aichi, Japan) and Takeshi Kawano (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes: a sensor head having a magnetic material; a drive unit configured to energize the sensor head; a pickup coil close to the sensor head; and an information processing unit configured to generate a bias magnetic field by energizing the pickup...