ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,500, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Combined radio altimeter and doppler radar with surface-mountable antenna array" was invented by Timothy Allen Murphy (Marysville, Wash.), Rongsheng Li (Menifee, Calif.) and Alireza Shapoury (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating an output radio frequency (RF) signal. The method includes communicating the output RF signal to an antenna module. The method includes receiving a bit stream from the antenna module. The bit stream includes data representing the output RF signal prior to transmission of an output RF waveform a...