ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,430, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Radar unit temperature gain control" was invented by Karthik Kumar (Seattle), Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tianchen Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for temperature gain control on radar units are described. A method includes determining a first value for an internal operating temperature corresponding to a steady-state of a radar unit. The method further includes causing the radar unit to operate in a first mode that heats the radar unit. The method further includes obtaining a second value for the intern...