US Patent Issued to NXP on Sept. 22 for "Automotive radar with sparse array DOA estimation" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,868, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Automotive radar with sparse array DOA estimation" was invented by Binbin Shi (Boston), Jun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Ryan Haoyun Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing received radar signals is presented. A steering matrix for the radar system is determined. A measurement vector is determined using signals received by a plurality of receiver modules. An output amplitude vector is initialized using the steering matrix and the measurement vector. An optimized output amplitude vector is determined by determining...