US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on July 28 for "Radar device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. RE50,969, issued on July 28, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Radar device" was invented by Takaaki Kishigami (Tokyo) and Junji Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of transmission antennas include Nt1 transmission antennas arranged in a first direction and Nt2 transmission antennas arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a plurality of reception antennas include Na1 reception antennas arranged in the first direction and Na2 reception antennas arranged in the second direction. In the first direction, an inter-element space between any two of the Nt1 transmi...