ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,113, issued on March 11, was assigned to XPLORER (Castanet Tolosan, France).

"Metal detector with sampled architecture" was invented by David Schiavinato (Castanet Tolosan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the technical field of magnetic detection. In particular, it relates to a metal detector for detecting at least one metallic object exposed to a detection magnetic field. A metal detector that uses a sampled-architecture receiver yields a sampling operation separate from the quantization and encoding operations. As a result, sampling can be done directly on the reception signal and most of the signal ...