ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,509, issued on June 23, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for correcting a radar signal to determine a synthetic aperture, computer program, device, and vehicle" was invented by Heiko Gustav Kurz (Hannover, Germany), Thomas Gisder (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Marc-Michael Meinecke (Sassenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for correcting a radar signal to determine a synthetic aperture. Data indicative of the radar signal is received, the radar signal having a sequence of echoes from a target region and being based on a sequence of transmission pulses. A movement of at least ...