ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,328, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TransRobotics Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for high resolution distance sensing and applications" was invented by Sayf Alalusi (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system includes a first radar sensing assembly and an analysis system. The first radar sensing assembly measures plural distances to a first target location at different times using radar. The analysis system receives the plural distances from the first radar sensing assembly and quantifies movements of a target object at the first target location at the different times by calculating differences ...