ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,441, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Real-time THz sensing using true time delay" was invented by Siddharth K. Advani (Allen, Texas), Shadi Abu-Surra (Plano, Texas), Gang Xu (Allen, Texas) and Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for real-time THz sensing using true time delay (TTD) is implemented by a base station and includes transmitting, by a transceiver that includes TDD elements and phase shifters configured in the transceiver, simultaneous frequency dependent (SFD) beams to scan an environment at a first granularity to detect a spa...