US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNOR & Co. OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND on Dec. 30 for "Document recognition device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,969, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE GOVERNOR & COMPANY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND (London).

"Document recognition device" was invented by Anthony McGrath (Loughton, Great Britain), Richard Noble (Norwich, Great Britain) and Charles Noble (Stamford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document recognition device comprising a magnetic field sensor (22) responsive to a controller (34) to acquire magnetic field data from a document of value (18), wherein the magnetic field sensor (22) comprises a plurality of sensor elements (28) having a node spacing and the controller (34) is configured to periodically activate the magne...