ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,240, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Stationary object detection and classification based on low-level radar data" was invented by Shan Zhang (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Kanishka Tyagi (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Steven Shaw (Indianapolis) and Narbik Manukian (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems for stationary object detection and classification based on low-level radar data. Raw electromagnetic signals reflected off stationary objects and received by a radar system may be preprocessed to produce low-level spectrum data in the form of ...