ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,942, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Elta Systems Ltd. (Ashdod, Israel).

"System for obstacle detection" was invented by Gabi Arieli (Nitzan, Israel), Rafi Gabbay (Ashdod, Israel), Gil Klar (Yavne, Israel), Tomer Baum (Moshav Nechusha, Israel), Yacov Attias (Ashdod, Israel) and Rami Shlomov (Even Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and corresponding method are described, for use in alerting on objects in path of vehicle's propagation. The system comprising RF transmission/reception unit comprising at least one phased array antenna unit, and a control unit. The RF transmission/reception unit is configured for per...