ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,251, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Radar transmit bandwidth augmentation" was invented by Hung Loui (Albuquerque, N.M.), Brianna N. Maio (Albuquerque, N.M.), Steven Castillo (Peralta, N.M.) and Emmett J. Gurule (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various technologies pertaining to forming a very high instantaneous bandwidth (IBW) radar signal based upon several radio frequency (RF) signals that have sub-bands of the frequency band of the radar signal are described herein. A radar system is configured to address local oscillator leakage ac...