ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,196, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for processing joint multiple chirp sequences" was invented by Tarik Kazaz (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Karan Jayachandra (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Arie Geert Cornelis Koppelaar (Giessen, Netherlands) and Yiting Lu (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores machine instructions that cause a processor to obtain a range-sample-antenna data cube for a received radar signal comprising reflections of a plurality of interleaved chirp sequences. The processor generates, for each chirp sequence,...