ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,120, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Dynamic spatiotemporal beamforming self-diagonostic system" was invented by Jonathan Jenner Macoskey (Pittsburgh) and Samarjit Das (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for self-diagnosing a data acquisition system for acquiring calibrated images of an area by a controller includes requesting a signal, from a sensor associated with a mobile platform in the area, removing from the signal, background noise associated with the mobile platform, thereby focusing the measurement to a foreground signal, wherein the background noise is removed from the fore...