ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,574, issued on June 30, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Radar antenna system" was invented by Dennis Vollbracht (Hilden, Germany) and Sachit Varma (Duisburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar antenna system comprises a first antenna, an additional first antenna, a second antenna, a guiding section, a branching section, an additional branching section, a filter section and an additional filter section. The branching section and the additional branching section are coupled in series in between the guiding section and the first antenna. The branching section couples the filter section to ...