ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,144, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Segmented aperture imaging and positioning method of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle-borne synthetic aperture radar" was invented by Meiyixiang Luo (Shanghai) and Feng Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segmented aperture imaging/positioning method of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial radar. A target echo is acquired based on an unmanned aerial vehicle-borne synthetic aperture radar system. An echo signal estimated from the motion state of a manoeuvring platform is segmented. Motion compensation is performed on each echo signal segment. A two-dimensional...