ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,663, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Radar system transmitter beamforming using occupancy map data" was invented by Ashish Pandharipande (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Nitin Jonathan Myers (Rozenburg, Netherlands), Edoardo Focante (Delft, Netherlands) and Geethu Joseph (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include at least one transmitter unit and at least one receiver unit, wherein the at least one transmitter unit and the at least one receiver unit are configured to transmit and receive radar signals, wherein the at least one transmitter unit and the at least one receive...