US Patent Issued to NXP on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for determination of direction of arrival angle" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,450, issued on March 17, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for determination of direction of arrival angle" was invented by Arie Geert Cornelis Koppelaar (Giessen, Netherlands) and Marco Jan Gerrit Bekooij (Empel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to: receive an input dataset indicative of radar signals, reflected from targets, received at an antenna; determine an objective function for evaluation over a plurality of points of a search space representing possible direction-of-arrival angles; evaluate the objective function for a first candidate number of targets...