ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,726, issued on April 15, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Radar multipath detection based on changing virtual arrays" was invented by Omar Abdeldayem (San Mateo, Calif.), Badeea Ferdaous Alferdaous Alazem (Redwood City, Calif.) and Samantha Marie Ting (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for detecting multipath radar returns and modifying radar data. A vehicle may use radar devices to receive radar data while traversing within an environment. The vehicle may process the radar data using a virtual array based on an arraignment of the antennae within an aperture of th...