ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,346, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Assurance monitoring of radar systems" was invented by Brandon E. Wilson (Portland, Ore.), Carlo L. Tiana (Portland, Ore.), Jeffery A. Finley (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Brian O. Helfrecht (Batavia, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing a self-diagnostic test on an electronically scanned array is disclosed. The system includes an array of emitter antenna and receiver antenna elements, a controller configured to control the modulation of transmitting and received signals, and a monitoring processor configured to receive a...