US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on May 6 for "Estimating magnetic field using a network of satellites" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,542, issued on May 6, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Estimating magnetic field using a network of satellites" was invented by Brian Anderson (Mt. Airy, Md.), Regupathi Angappan (Baltimore), Robin Barnes (Elkridge, Md.), Sabine Stanley (Finksburg, Md.) and Sarah Vines (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes: receipt and accession of magnetic field data from a constellation of satellites providing global coverage over the Earth in a time span less than one day; inter-calibrating the magnetic field data from all satellites to a common standard; quantifying the global m...