ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,645, issued on July 22, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Radar apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Kishigami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar transmitter includes: a plurality of transmission antennas that transmit a transmission signal; and a transmission circuit that applies a phase rotation amount corresponding to a Doppler shift amount and a code sequence to the transmission signal to perform multiplexing transmission of the transmission signal from the plurality of transmission antennas. Each of the plurality of transmission antennas is associated with each of a plurality of c...