ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,254, issued on May 12, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Georadar imaging method and associated georadar" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Dore (Grenoble, France), Raffaele D'Errico (Grenoble, France) and Luc Maret (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging an area of interest on the ground uses a georadar equipped with a plurality of transmitter antennas and a plurality of receiver antennas. A bistatic RCS matrix is calculated at each point of a grid based on the matrix representing the MIMO channel modelling the propagation and the reflection in the area ...