ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,256, issued on March 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Multiple-input, multiple-output radar system with range-doppler circulating chirps" was invented by Nikita Petrov (Helmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes first and second transmitters, a receiver, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The processor causes the first and second transmitters to transmit first and second chirp signals, respectively. The second chirp signal has an in-band frequency offset in fast-time and slow-time and at least one of a carrier frequency offset in slow-time and a phase offset re...