ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,627, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distributed radar system" was invented by Patrick M. Amihood (Palo Alto, Calif.), Octavio Ponce Madrigal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Cody Blair Wortham (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a distributed radar system. The distributed radar system includes two or more radar front-end circuits and at least one processor. The radar front-end circuits are distributed within a device at different positions. By partitioning antennas and transceivers across multiple radar front-end circuits instead of ...