ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,091, issued on March 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Radar system implementing segmented chirps and phase compensation for object movement" was invented by Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, India) and Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises processor cores and computer-readable mediums storing machine instructions for the processor cores. When executing the machine instructions, the processor cores obtain received signals for transmitted chirps from a radar sensor circuit. Each transmitted chirp comprises an A chirp segment, a time gap, and a B chirp segment, respectively....