ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,459, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Radar apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Akamine (Nisshin, Japan) and Takuya Takayama (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar apparatus, mounted to a vehicle, includes: a transmitting unit that transmits a transmission signal at a set repetition cycle; and a receiving unit that receives a reflection signal reflected by at least one object. The radar apparatus calculates a velocity residual of each of at least one target object, which is a difference between a velocity prediction value and a velocity measurement value. Based on a magnitude of variation ...