ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,246, issued on March 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, radar device, and radar operation method" was invented by Shoei Nashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveform shaping unit (220) accumulates beat signals S9, which are beat signals S8 in frame units. A distance calculation unit (252) generates a histogram of range bins using the beat signals S9, and calculates a distance based on a range bin number corresponding to a peak in the histogram as a relative distance of a target object. A velocity calculation unit (253) generates a power spectrum of Doppler bins for each time ...