ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,582, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Combined radio altimeter and doppler radar with surface-mountable antenna array" was invented by Timothy Allen Murphy (Marysville, Wash.), Rongsheng Li (Menifee, Calif.) and Alireza Shapoury (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an output radio frequency (RF) signal. The method includes generating a digitized output RF signal representing the output RF signal. The method includes transmitting an output RF waveform associated with the output RF signal. The method includes receiving a return RF waveform based on transmiss...