ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,500, issued on May 6, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"People counting based on radar measurement" was invented by Raghavendran Vagarappan Ulaganathan (Munich), Andrea Heinz (Munich) and Avik Santra (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes: obtaining one or more radar measurement frames, each one of the one or more radar measurement frames including respective data samples acquired by a radar sensor monitoring a scene; for each one of the one or more radar measurement frames, determining a respective 2-D angular intensity map of the scene based on the respective radar m...