ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,236, issued on July 15, was assigned to R2 SPACE LLC (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Hive-cell organization and processing of radar data" was invented by Jeffrey Scott Pennings (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology relate to system, methods, and devices for capturing, processing, and rendering synthetic aperture radar data captured by a radar-based imaging system on graphical processing units based on a hive-cell mapping using a tessellation of a Goldberg polyhedron. In some embodiments, SAR data is produced by a radar-based imaging system. A computing apparatus receives the SAR data and ...