ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,554, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Radar apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Kishigami (Tokyo), Kenta Iwasa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidekuni Yomo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission antennas which transmit a plurality of transmission signals at every transmission period using a multiplexing transmission; and a transmission circuit which applies frequency offsets and phase rotations to the transmission signals for each transmission period during which the transmission signals are transmitted. A combination of t...