ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,278, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FNV IP B.V. (Leidschendam, Netherlands).

"Method and system for mapping a region" was invented by Arnoud Marc Jongsma (Leidschendam, Netherlands) and Vsevolod Olegovych Kovalenko (Leidschendam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for mapping a target region (60) of space with signal scatterers. The method involves moving a signal transmitter (26) and/or signal receiver (46) along a respective trajectory (34, 54) relative to the target region, and meanwhile transmitting a probing signal (62) towards the target region, this probing signal including a time sequence of nois...