ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,381, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Monostatic radar with progressive length transmission" was invented by Sungwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Taesang Yoo (San Diego), Simone Merlin (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (Hyderabad, India) and John Edward Smee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monostatic radar with progressive length transmission may be used with half-duplex systems or with full-duplex systems to reduce self-int...