US Patent Issued to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for synthetic aperture radar image compression" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,010, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for synthetic aperture radar image compression" was invented by Zhu Li (Overland Park, Kan.) and Paras Maharjan (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For compressing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, preprocessing operations are performed on an input SAR image. A discrete cosine transform is performed on the image, and multiple subbands are created, where each subband represents a particular range of frequencies. The subbands are organized into multiple groups, where the multiple groups comprise a first low freque...