US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 8 for "Bistatic ISAR synchronization using direct path signal" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,216, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Bistatic ISAR synchronization using direct path signal" was invented by Raghu Raj (Washington) and Ronald Lipps (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing a bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging radar system using only the signal that travels directly between the transmitter and receiver. In an embodiment, an extracted direct path signal is used as a matched filter reference function. In an embodiment, full pulse com...