ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,119, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for radar-based biometric signal extraction" was invented by Babak Mamandipoor (San Jose, Calif.), James T Curran (Cupertino, Calif.) and Joseph Hakim (Soquel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining fine grain motions and vibrations of live and/or inanimate objects are described based on using a radar system. For example, biometric information may be extracted from such vibrations associated with a live object. In different embodiments, processing circuitry may perform different statistical analysis on refle...