ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,895, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Determining reliability of a direction of arrival (DOA) of a signal received by a radar system from a source and apparatus for determining reliability" was invented by Marco Jan Gerrit Bekooij (Empel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A snapshot comprises a plurality of signals is received where each of the plurality of signals reflected from a respective source and received by an antenna array. A first DoA estimator determines, based on the received snapshot, a plurality of DoAs, the plurality of DoAs comprising a respective DoA for each of the plur...