ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,992, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"System and method for generating transmitted signals of a Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave radar" was invented by Kazunori Takahashi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stepped frequency (SF) radar system includes a multi-channel radio frequency (RF) transceiver, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna, and a processor. The transmitting antenna transmits output signals from the multi-channel RF transceiver, which output signals include a plurality of signal scans. Each signal scan includes multiple output signals each having a s...