ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,498, issued on June 10, 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 apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission antennas that each transmit a transmission signal; and a radar transmitter that applies a Doppler shift amount to the transmission signal transmitted from each of the plurality of transmission antennas. A plurality of the Doppler shift amounts have intervals set by unequally dividing a Doppler frequency range subject to Doppler analysis."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2021, under Application...