ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,206, issued on March 18, was assigned to Stichting IMEC Nederland (AE Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, system, and computer program product for automatic multi-object localization and/or vital sign monitoring" was invented by Yiting Lu (Delft, Netherlands) and Marco Mercuri (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic multi-object localization and/or vital sign monitoring is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving a radar signal in order to form a corresponding observation matrix, reducing noise by applying singular value decomposition to the observation matrix, processing the result o...