ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,959, issued on June 2, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Radar sensor apparatus for a motor vehicle and method" was invented by Heiko Gustav Kurz (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar sensor apparatus for a transportation vehicle having a central electronic computing device to generate an electrical control signal for a transmitting device; a laser device which, in accordance with the electrical control signal, generates an optical transfer signal for transfer to the transmitting device; a transformation device having at least one first optical ring resonator which, in accordance with the optical transfer s...