ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,635, issued on July 29, was assigned to NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
"Self-injection-locking monopulse radar" was invented by Tzyy-Sheng Horng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Su (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Xuan-Xin Wu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Mu-Cyun Tang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SIL monopulse radar includes a self-injection-locking oscillator (SILO), a transmit antenna, two receive antennas, a hybrid coupler, a first demodulator, a second demodulator and a processor. The transmit antenna transmits the oscillation signal of the SILO to object. The two receive antennas receive a reflected signa...