ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,288, issued on May 20, was assigned to MBDA FRANCE (Le Plessis-Robinson, France).

"Radio system with multiple antenna arrays and adaptive waveforms" was invented by Pierre Baldensperger (Le Plessis-Robinson, France) and Francois Magne (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The radio system (10) comprises a waveform generator (1) alternately generating an FMCW wave representing a linearly frequency-modulated continuous wave for radar imaging and a CW wave representing a wave kept at a given frequency for measuring a velocity vector, an amplification chain (2), a set (4) of transmit antennas (41, 42, 43), a set (5) of receive antennas (...