ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,173, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device and signal processing method" was invented by Yuki Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Taichi Tanaka (Tokyo) and Masato Toda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The signal processing device 10 includes a three-dimensional information with reliability reconstruction unit which generates three-dimensional information with reliability including three-dimensional information involving intensity and an estimated value of a phase at a three-dimensional position reconstructed using observed SAR images and imaging conditions, and information indicating reliability of the thr...