ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,612, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Resolving a multipath ambiguity in a TDM-MIMO radar" was invented by Santhosh Nadig (Lund, Sweden) and Anders Mannesson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TDM MIMO FMCW radar comprises at least one row of physical receivers with a first spacing (dr) in a first direction, and further comprises a plurality of physical transmitters arranged with a second spacing (dt) in said first direction. To determine whether a peak in an angle spectrum corresponds to a direct reflection or a first-order multipath artefact, an inverse phase-shift vector corresponding to a ...