ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,797, issued on July 1, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Super-resolution MIMO sparse array automotive radar based on forward and backward hankel matrix completion" was invented by Ryan Haoyun Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Dongyin Ren (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Jun Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed aperture radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided for generating a completed virtual array aperture by using a radar control processing unit to construct a sparse forward-backward matrix from one or more sparse measurement array vectors and to generate beamforming outputs of a...