ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,939, issued on May 5, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Radar transceiver" was invented by Sreekiran Samala (Plano, Texas), Venkatesh Srinivasan (Plano, Texas) and Vijaya B. Rentala (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, e.g., a radar transceiver, includes a receiver and a transmitter. One such device includes a phase shifter having a first input to receive an oscillating signal and a second input to receive a control signal. The device also includes a signal generator having a quadrature (Q) channel output to output a quadrature phase version of the oscillating signal; and a Q channel mixer having an in...