ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,899, issued on March 24, was assigned to BDCM A2 LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Calibration method and apparatus" was invented by Safa Kanan Hadi Salman (Vista, Calif.), Taha Shahvirdi Dizaj Yekan (San Diego), Souren Shamsinejad (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Maha Achour (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna calibration method for a beam steering radar. A first set of input voltages is determined for a plurality of phase shifters coupled to a plurality of antenna elements in an antenna array in the beam steering radar, the voltages to control phases of signals for transmission by the antenna a...