ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,618, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for determination of direction of arrival angle" was invented by Anusha Ravish Suvarna (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marco Jan Gerrit Bekooij (Empel, Netherlands) and Francesco Laghezza (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to: receive an input dataset indicative of the amplitude and phase of radar signals received at a plurality of antenna elements; determine an objective function; determine a beam forming spectrum, the beam forming spectrum comprising a correlation of the input dataset with a set of ...