US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on March 24 for "High resolution 4-D millimeter-wave imaging radar" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,993, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"High resolution 4-D millimeter-wave imaging radar" was invented by Kamal Sarabandi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Aditya Varma Muppala (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "All existing state-of-the-art high resolution millimeter wave imaging systems experience a trade off between image acquisition time and transceiver array complexity. The proposed dual reflector antenna breaks this trade-off by drastically reducing the array formation time while maintaining the relative simplicity that comes with using a single transceiver el...