ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,967, issued on March 4, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).
"Active antenna radar with extended angular coverage" was invented by Pascal Cornic (Brest, France), Yoan Veyrac (Merignac, France) and Renan Le Gall (Brest, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active antenna radar able to produce an image with high angular resolution over a wide angular coverage, the antenna includes a number N of transmission channels and a number M of reception channels, each transmission channel and reception channel comprising an elementary antenna: each elementary antenna comprises a lens or a reflector associated with an array of element...