ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,198, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Radar monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with context-based programming" was invented by Pranava Tripathi (Linz, Austria) and Alexander Daum (Hallein, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring a radar monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and executing commands of an activated downloadable programming context is provided. The method includes receiving and storing a plurality of downloadable programming contexts that are sequentially received from an external controller, where each subsequent downloadable pro...