US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 1 for "FMCW radar with elevation scanning" (California, Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,798, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"FMCW radar with elevation scanning" was invented by Shawn Rogers (Johns Creek, Ga.), Marc M. Pos (Duvall, Wash.), Darren Goshi (El Segundo, Calif.) and David C. Vacanti (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes techniques to scan a radio frequency antenna beam along one or more axes. For example, for a wide transmit beam oriented such that the long axis is in azimuth, this disclosure describes techniques to scan the transmit beam in elevation, in the direction of a short axis of the transmit beam. The radar receive aper...