ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,343, issued on July 22, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"NLS using a bounded linear initial search space and a fixed grid with pre-calculated variables" was invented by Xin Zhang (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Stuart Rogers (Oak Park, Calif.) and Zhengzheng Li (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is NLS using a bounded linear initial search space and a fixed grid with pre-calculated variables. Specifically, first and second signals with unknown first and second elevation angles, respectively, are received that have been reflected by an object, with the second signal also ha...