ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,411, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Passive radar receiver system" was invented by Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Matan Ben-Shachar (D.N. Emek Hefer, Israel), Anand Ganesh Dabak (Plano, Texas) and Brian Ginsburg (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes a passive radar receiver system including an RF receiver front-end to receive a wireless source signal and a reflected signal. An antenna switch of the front-end switches a first antenna to a receiver chain during a first time to generate first radar signal data based on a combined wireless signal comprising wireles...