US Patent 10162053 Multifunctional automotive radar

In accordance with an example implementation of this disclosure, a multifunction radar transceiver comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is operable to modulate data onto a first radar burst, beamform the first radar burst, and transmit the first radar burst via a plurality of antenna elements. The receiver is operable to receive a reflection of the first radar burst, perform beamforming of the reflection of the first radar burst, demodulate the first radar burst to recover the data modulated on the first radar burst, and determine characteristics of an object off of which the first radar burst reflected based on characteristics of the reflection of the first radar burst.