US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 16 for "Modular multi-angle synthetic aperture radar sensor on a track" (New Mexico, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,721, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force.

"Modular multi-angle synthetic aperture radar sensor on a track" was invented by Kathleen Dipple (Fort Walton Beach, Fla.) and Roger Derek West (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic aperture radar sensor having five degrees of freedom (DoF) is disclosed. The five DoF enable multiple imaging operations, including multiple simultaneous imaging operations. The sensor includes multiple transceivers mounted to t...