ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,258, issued on March 3, was assigned to XTRACTONE TECHNOLOGIES INC..

"System and method of fully polarimetric pulsed radar" was invented by Munir Ahmad Tarar (Mississauga, Canada), Nevine Demitri (Toronto), Reza Mousavi (Markham, Great Britain), Diogo Dutra (Toronto) and Farhan Naeem (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of threat detection using a pulsed polarimetric radar system using microwave range of frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. The system uses a radar principle to transmit and receive the scattered response from the target. A time pulsed upconverted frequency system is used to s...