ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,445, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Distributed radar" was invented by Rui Lyu (Chengdu, China), Luqi Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Liu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed radar includes a control unit, a receive antenna, and N transmit antennas. The N transmit antennas include a first transmit antenna, a second transmit antenna, and a third transmit antenna. There are a first distance between the first transmit antenna and the second transmit antenna, and a second distance between the first transmit antenna and the third transmit antenna, and the first d...