ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,515, issued on June 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhove, Netherlands).
"Linear chirp automotive radar using millimeter wave metamaterial antennas" was invented by Dongyin Ren (East Brunswick, N.J.), Ryan Haoyun Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Satish Ravindran (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear chirp radar system, apparatus and method use a radar control processing unit to control an LFM radar front end which includes a frequency-scanning transmit antenna and a frequency-scanning receive antenna which respectively sweep a transmit and receive energy focus across an angle space with each linear chirp signal, wher...