US Patent Issued to Northern Digital on Feb. 10 for "Field generator orientation for magnetic tracking in planar field generating assemblies" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,150, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Northern Digital Inc. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Field generator orientation for magnetic tracking in planar field generating assemblies" was invented by Georg Brunner (Constance, Germany) and Krunoslav Prsa (Radolfzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic tracking system includes a field generator assembly for generating a plurality of magnetic fields, wherein each magnetic field is generated by a respective magnetic field generator of the field generator assembly, at least one of the magnetic field generators having a first angular orientation and at least another of the magnetic fiel...