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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ralph Benjamin, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
University of Bristol, Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 22 ; 367138 ; 367-7 ;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided in which a phased transmitting array (21) is arranged to irradiate a selected voxel within a search volume. Energy reflected from the voxel is received by a further antenna and the signals received from a plurality of voxels are analysed to search for reflectors or discontinuities within the search space.