ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,012, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radar device" was invented by Kazuhisa Okamoto (Tokyo), Yasuhide Nonaka (Tokyo), Fuyuki Fukushima (Tokyo), Kentaro Isoda (Tokyo) and Kei Suwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While transmitting any one transmission signal of a plurality of transmission signals, a transmitting-receiving unit in a radar device acquires, as a reception signal for target detection, a reception signal of a frequency band different from a frequency band of the transmission signal, and blocks a reception signal of the same frequency band as the frequency band of the transmissio...