ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,480, issued on June 16, was assigned to Zadar Labs Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).
"System and method for high resolution beamforming for coherent targets" was invented by Mohammad Emadi (San Jose, Calif.), Shahin Khobahi (San Jose, Calif.) and Ali Mostajeran (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to receive correlated input signals from targets from antennas in a linear or planar antenna array, receive coarse estimations of azimuth and/or elevation angles for the targets, apply a semi-randomized signal permutation and reference selection algorithm to the correlated input signals to construct a virtual array...