ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,711, issued on April 21, was assigned to Verquin LLC (San Clemente, Calif.).
"Synthetic aperture radar corner reflector" was invented by Christian Walls (San Clemente, Calif.) and William Funderburk (San Clemente, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for improving satellite calibration reflectors and in particular, for improving performance of corner reflectors used for calibrating synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for constructing a satellite ground reflector comprising coupling a braced foundation to a trihedral ...