ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,878, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TeraDar Inc. (Boston).

"Techniques for adaptive collection of information about target objects based on situational awareness data" was invented by Gregory L. Charvat (Guilford, Conn.), Nicholas Saiz (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Carey (Watertown, Mass.), Gunnar Juergens (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Sunil Chomal (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for adapting usage of radar devices to collect data about target objects based on situational awareness data. Techniques described herein may involve selecting a radar operational configuration (e.g., wavefo...