ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,063, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Acconeer AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Autonomous moving object" was invented by Bo Lincoln (Lund, Sweden), Peter Almers (Limhamn, Sweden) and Rikard Nelander (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an autonomous moving object comprising: a radar sensor configured to scan a volume in front of the object, and a radar signal processor configured to: acquire a sequence of radar responses, each radar response of the sequence being acquired at a different position (P) of the autonomous moving object, and perform synthetic aperture radar processing of at least parts of the acquir...