ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,609, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW)-based system for estimation and compensation of nonlinearity in linearly swept sources" was invented by Pu Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), David Millar (Concord, Mass.), Kieran Parsons (Rockport, Mass.) and Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW)-based system configured to convert measurements of a linearly modulated wave from a time-domain into a frequency-domain to produce a non-linear frequency signal, where the non-linea...