ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,272, issued on May 12, was assigned to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (Palaiseau, France).

"Detection and telemetry by electromagnetic radiation pulses" was invented by David Tomline Michel (Orsay, France), Laurent Mugnier (Meudon, France) and Matthieu Valla (Epinay sur Orge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and system for detection and telemetry using electromagnetic radiation pulses allows characterization of a radial velocity distribution as a function of a separation distance within an exploration zone. An impulse response from the system is used for decomposing a measurement signal which is...