ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,627, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).
"State estimation using sparse hall sensor-based sensing" was invented by Narayanan Ramakrishnan (New City, N.Y.) and Mark Edwards (Armonk, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of tracking vessel movers within a liquid handler system using sparse sensor assemblies. The method includes mapping received sensor signals to pre-characterized functions and determining the positions of the vessel movers with respect to a single sensor from the sensor assembly accordingly. The sensors in the sparse sensor assembly can be position...