ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,500, issued on July 15, was assigned to General Radar Corp. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Phased array Rotman lens front end devices" was invented by Jon Williams (San Francisco), Dmitry Turbiner (Dallas), Brian Williams (Issaquah, Wash.), Christian Kurzke (Saratoga, Calif.), David Powell (Oakland, Calif.), Ilia Lebedev (Cambridge, Mass.), Sergey Klypin (Sammamish, Wash.), Barnabas Fung (San Mateo, Calif.) and Devin Matthews (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar system includes a transmit front end device including a transmit planar component, and a receive front end device including a receive planar component. Each of the tran...