ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,243, issued on May 12, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Opportunistic passive multistatic radar processing for automotive radar" was invented by Michael J. Hamilton (San Francisco) and Christoph Schwark (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various technologies described herein pertain to opportunistically employing passive multistatic radar processing in automotive radar systems. A radar system of an autonomous vehicle is controlled to operate in an active mode during a first time period as the autonomous vehicle travels along a route. A transmitter and receiver of the radar system are enabled in the active m...