Follow the cash-flow statement, but the contest is over silicon content per car. On December 6, 2022, NXP was granted US11520030B2, "High resolution automotive radar system with forward and backward difference co-array processing." The CPC stack — G01S 13/4436, 13/4409, 13/449 and 7/41 — is radar signal-processing and resolution.Resolution is the value lever in automotive radar silicon. A processing scheme that gets more angular resolution from a given antenna and channel count lets a chipmaker offer better sensing without more hardware — which is how NXP defends and grows the dollar value of each radar chip it ships into ADAS systems.Supplier cost is automaker cost in disguise, and silicon is a growing share of that cost. A higher-resolution radar at the same hardware footprint feeds into the automaker's per-vehicle ADAS bill and, for NXP, into automotive-segment margin. The patent is the upstream artifact, not the revenue.Keep it subordinate to the financials. A radar-processing grant is a content-strategy tell; the design wins and the silicon dollars show up in segment disclosures over time. Any revenue claim rests on the company filing on sec.gov, surfaced via EdgarBeast as the index.Read it as a 2022 silicon content-per-vehicle position from NXP. Whether it converted into captured value is answered downstream in the automotive-segment numbers.