ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,750, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method and radiation detector for automotive radar tests" was invented by Gerhard Hamberger (Munich), Steffen Neidhardt (Munich), Benedikt Simper (Munich), Matthias Beer (Munich) and Maximilian Bogner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of testing a radio frequency (RF) attenuation of a radar cover. A radiation detector is provided. The radiation detector is located with respect to a radar device and/or a radar cover at a distance. A reference value of radiated power is obtained. A radar signal ra...