ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,553, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"FMCW radar" was invented by Alexander Belitzer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar system and a corresponding method for a radar system are described herein. In accordance with one example, the method includes receiving-via a first RF port of a coupler-an antenna signal from an antenna, receiving-with an auxiliary receiver-a representation of the antenna signal via a second RF port of the coupler, and generating-with the auxiliary receiver-an auxiliary base-band signal from the representation of the antenna signal. Based on the auxili...