ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,502, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Ind.).

"Range filtering combined with suppression filtering for full-polarization characterization retention" was invented by Thomas G Pratt (South Bend, Ind.), Luke Saladis (South Bend, Ind.) and Robert D Kossler (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting targets with radar signals are disclosed which include a receiver configured to receive a radar signal on orthogonally-polarized channels and generate a receiver return vector from the received radar signal, a range filter configured to filter reflections in ...