ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,007, issued on March 24, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Recursive deterministic maximum likelihood estimation of direction of arrival in automotive radar sensing" was invented by Anusha Ravish Suvarna (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Arie Geert Cornelis Koppelaar (Giessen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for processing radar signals to detect objects. A radar signal snapshot is generated. A hierarchical tree structure is generated using the snapshot signal, wherein each layer in the hierarchical tree structure is associated with a number of candidate objects and each node in the hierarchical tree ...