US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle radar sensor utilizing non-uniform frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) chirps" (California, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,854, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Vehicle radar sensor utilizing non-uniform frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) chirps" was invented by Chunshu Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephen Crouch (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle radar sensor utilizes Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar signals that incorporate non-uniform FMCW chirps having chirp profiles that differ from one another to sense one or more parameters of one or more objects in a field of view of the radar sensor. The chirp profiles may differ from one another in various manners, e.g., based ...