ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,649, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Trigger signaling through a clock signal in cascading radar systems" was invented by George Efthivoulidis (Graz, Austria), Tony Gschier (Graz, Austria), Bernd Zimek (Graz, Austria), Peter Thurner (Weissensee, Austria) and Thomas Santa (Seeboden, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) includes a trigger encoder configured to receive a clock signal comprising a plurality of clock pulses having a fixed amplitude and a trigger signal configured to indicate trigger events. The trigger encoder is co...