ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,355, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA (Siena, Italy).
"System for tracking an object" was invented by Valerio Biancalana (Asciano, Italy), Piero Chessa (Pisa, Italy), Roberto Cecchi (Siena, Italy), Marco Mandala' (Poggibonsi, Italy) and Domenico Prattichizzo (Siena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (50) for tracking an object (1) comprises a magnetic field source (10) configured to be fixed to this object (1); a magnetometric data collection unit (20) that uses magnetic field sensors (22) fixed at predetermined positions on a support (23) to form an array (21), and that includes a sens...