ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,707, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FIRST RF Corp. (Boulder, Colo.).
"Radar sidelobe blanking" was invented by Eric Pahlke (Superior, Colo.), Luke Sankey (Berthoud, Colo.) and Kristina Brunsgaard (Perth, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sidelobe blanking method is used with a radar system with a linear transmit array along a first axis and a linear receive array along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The method transmits a transmit guard signal using a transmit guard antenna with a wide beamwidth in both axes, determines a first guard signal strength of a signal captured by the receive array at a first r...