US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of Jersey on Aug. 11 for "Joint sensing and communications using OFDM waveforms" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,587, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of Jersey (Brunswick, N.J.).

"Joint sensing and communications using OFDM waveforms" was invented by Athina Petropulu (New Brunswick, N.J.) and Zhaoyi Xu (New Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus providing a dual-function radar communication (DFRC) system a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is configured to have only a small number of its antennas active in each channel use. Probing waveforms are of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) type. OF...