ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,867, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Time-continuous power monitoring for radar applications" was invented by Yi Yin (Munich), Birama Goumballa (Larra, France), Olivier Vincent Doare (La Salvetat St Gilles, France) and Julien Orlando (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first input signal that corresponds to an output transmitted signal of an amplifier of a vehicle radar system is received and a digital threshold signal is transmitted to an input terminal of a digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter is configured to generate an analog threshold value that is at...