ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,505, issued on June 23, was assigned to Arbe Robotics Ltd. (Israel).
"Extended virtual array in an automotive MIMO radar" was invented by Noam Arkind (Givatayim, Israel) and Ram Machness (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel and useful system and method for extending the virtual array of an existing MIMO automotive radar. In one embodiment, the virtual array is extended by adding one or more additional TX or RX antennas to the existing radar thereby improving the resolution in either azimuth or elevation or both. The additional antennas are added via one or more extender printed circuit boards (PCBs) that are connected...