ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,160, issued on July 14, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).
"Doppler radar with ambiguous electronic scanning" was invented by Pascal Cornic (Brest, France), Yves Audic (Brest, France), Renan Le Gall (Brest, France) and Yoan Veyrac (Brest, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Doppler radar with ambiguous electronic scanning, using an active antenna comprising an array of elementary transmission antennas and an array of elementary reception antennas with the same angular opening. The arrays have the same radiation plane. The transmission array is ambiguous with a number of ambiguous lobes within said angular opening of sai...