With A Matrix Patents (Class 342/373)
  • Patent number: 11923961
    Abstract: A beam layout is optimised for a given traffic distribution and network state by determining optimum beam centre positions and generating a beam layout so as to meet system requirements and minimise the distances of locations within a coverage area from the optimum beam centre positions. Adjacent beams in low traffic areas may be merged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Inmarsat Global Limited
    Inventors: Adam Alexander Liddell, Pavan Bhave, Benjamin Moores
  • Patent number: 11916300
    Abstract: An array antenna includes a plurality of mechanically separate radiating panels arranged side-by-side, means for applying a shaping to the signals transmitted by the radiating elements of the panels and a device for managing the shaping of the signals, wherein the shaping coefficients correspond to a sum of at least: a shaping coefficient (Wco) making it possible to orient the maximum gain of the antenna in a given direction, and at least the opposite of a shaping coefficient (Wc) making it possible to orient the maximum gain of the antenna in the direction of a side lobe resulting from differences between the radiating panels of the array antenna. The method relates also to the associated transmission/reception method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Wilfried Greverie, Jean-Pierre Marcy, Ronan Moulinet
  • Patent number: 11884292
    Abstract: A radio detection and ranging (RADAR) sensor system for vehicles, such as autonomous vehicles, includes a first RADAR sensor configured to provide first RADAR data descriptive of an environment of a vehicle having a first antenna configured to output a first RADAR beam having a first azimuthal component over a first angular range and a second RADAR sensor configured to provide second RADAR data descriptive of the environment of the vehicle, the second RADAR sensor having a second antenna configured to output a second RADAR beam having a second azimuthal component that is narrower than the first azimuthal component of the first RADAR beam, wherein the second RADAR sensor is configured to sweep the second RADAR beam over a second angular range closer to a rear of the vehicle than a front of the vehicle to obtain the second RADAR data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Chunshu Li
  • Patent number: 11870149
    Abstract: An antenna assembly includes a plurality of antenna elements disposed in a circular pattern and equidistant from each other in angular separation relative to a common reference point at a center of the circular pattern. The antenna assembly may include or be operably coupled to a phase control module configured to apply selected phase fronts to each of the antenna elements to generate constructive and destructive interference patterns to define a directive beam in a desired direction. The selected phase fronts may include no phase adjustment, a positive phase adjustment value and a negative phase adjustment value, the positive and negative phase adjustment values each having a same magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventors: Gerard James Hayes, Koichiro Takamizawa, James O. Legvold, Elbert Stanford Eskridge, Jr., Mike Barts, John Swartz
  • Patent number: 11843448
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signals, transmitted from the user terminals, have multipath induced by a plurality of receive/transmit signal paths in the end to end relay and are relayed to the ground network. The ground network, using beamformers, recovers user data streams transmitted by the user terminals from return downlink signals. The ground network, using beamformers generates forward uplink signals from appropriately weighted combinations of user data streams that, after relay by the end-end-end relay, produce forward downlink signals that combine to form user beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth V. Buer, Mark J. Miller
  • Patent number: 11832146
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an indoor positioner and a positioning engine server. The indoor positioner has an antenna array including a plurality of antenna units. The indoor positioner divides the antenna units into multiple antenna unit groups, receives a wireless signal from user equipment at each time point via the antenna unit groups, and calculates a plurality of angles of arrival (AOA) corresponding to the antenna unit groups at each time point. The positioning engine server receives and stores the angles of arrival corresponding to the antenna unit groups at each time point, and filters the angles of arrival according to the angle sizes of the angles of arrival corresponding to the antenna unit groups at each time point stored in an observation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Po-Shan Kao, Cheng-Yang Tseng, Wan-An Yang, Yan-Cheng Chang
  • Patent number: 11817631
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement comprises a dual-polarised turnstile antenna, which comprises a first and a second dipole antenna element, which are aligned perpendicular to one another. The first and second dipole antenna elements each comprises two dipole halves. The dipole halves of both dipole antenna elements comprise a dipole section and a coupling section, which are galvanically connected to each other and to a first end of a ground connection medium or a signal connection medium. The coupling sections each extend along the closest dipole section of the adjacent other first and/or second dipole antenna element, wherein a spacing gap is formed between a coupling side of the respective coupling section of the first and/or second dipole antenna element and the respective adjacent dipole section of the second and/or dipole antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Dan Fleancu, Andreas Vollmer, Wolfgang Heyde
  • Patent number: 11815590
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cylindrical array radar including: a ring array having a plurality of Tx/Rx modules arranged in a circular shape for transmitting and receiving high-frequency signals of a radar frequency band, and a ring array signal processing unit arranged at the center of the array of the Tx/Rx modules for processing signal data exchanged with the plurality of Tx/Rx modules; and a main signal processing unit that performs antenna beamforming for the plurality of Tx/Rx modules and signal processing for detecting and tracking a target. It is possible to achieve omnidirectional antenna detection without mechanical rotation and easily obtain performance change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: FIONSYSTEMS, Inc.
    Inventor: Han Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 11791570
    Abstract: A method for radiating a co-located antenna including radiating the co-located antenna using a dual mode, where the co-located antenna has an inter-element spacing of about 1?, and the dual mode includes a TM11 mode and a TM21 mode. The TM11 mode is radiated to generate a TM11 far field pattern, where the TM11 mode has a broadside pattern characterized with a beam peak at broadside and the TM11 mode produces grating lobes in addition to the beam peak at broadside. The TM21 mode is radiated to generate a TM21 far field pattern orthogonal to the TM11 far field pattern, thereby causing the TM21 mode to produce a null at broadside to suppress the grating lobes produced by the TM11 mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Jia-Chi Samuel Chieh
  • Patent number: 11784758
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) protocol using multiple beams. In some aspects, the UE may receive a first HARQ transmission from a base station (BS) via a first beam, and may transmit a HARQ feedback to the first BS. The BS may receive the HARQ feedback message and determine whether to transmit a HARQ retransmission associated with the first HARQ transmission via the first beam or via a different beam (such as a second beam) based on beam-specific conditions. The BS may provide a HARQ retransmission beam indication to the UE indicating that the HARQ retransmission will be transmitted via the second beam. The BS may transmit the HARQ retransmission via the second beam. The UE may receive the HARQ retransmission associated with the first HARQ transmission via the second beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11770180
    Abstract: A phased array antenna system that reduces the high number of active elements and complexity. In order to achieve this reduction, the RF chain is designed for summation of all radiators in a single row. This reduces the hardware complexity from N2 to N where the array size is N×N. This reduction allows the antenna to electronically steer in one axis. The other axis is mechanically steered using a rotating platform. The loss between the LNA or PA with the row summation scheme is very low resulting in very high performance. Receiving and transmitting take place from the same aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Raviv Kiron
  • Patent number: 11737006
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may determine, for a user equipment (UE) operating in a mobility state, route information. The BS may transmit, to the UE, information identifying a set of beams based at least in part on the route information. The UE may perform a set of neighbor cell measurements, in connection with movement along the predicted route, using the set of beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ran Berliner, Guy Wolf, Shay Landis
  • Patent number: 11728879
    Abstract: There is presented a wireless device for dual-polarization beamforming. The wireless device comprises an antenna array. The antenna array comprises antenna elements of mutually orthogonal polarizations and a baseband chain. The antenna elements of both polarizations are operatively connected to the baseband chain. There is also presented a method for dual-polarization beamforming as performed by such a wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Petersson, Fredrik Athley, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11728853
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes first and second links. The first and second links respectively include first and second sets of antennae having an arrangement that renders a null space of a channel matrix between the first and second links non-zero. When the first and second links operate on a first frequency band, the first link obtains first channel state information that indicates a first channel measurement of a first set of channels observed from the second link to the first link. Based on the first channel state information, the first link determines a spatial mapping matrix that facilitates null steering of a signal transmission from the first link in a direction of the second link. The first link transmits to a remote device, a wireless signal on the first frequency band based on the spatial mapping matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankit Sethi, Sayak Roy, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 11699850
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for beam steering and switching are disclosed. In one or more examples, a method for operating a communication system comprises switching, at least one switch in a rearrangeable switch network, to control input levels to power amplifiers in a power distribution network. The method further comprises outputting, by the power amplifiers in the power distribution network, power to a plurality of antenna elements. Further, the method comprises steering and distributing power, by the antenna elements, in beams associated with each of the antenna elements according to a level of the power in each of the antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: METAWAVE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 11677145
    Abstract: Technologies directed to using selective true-time delay for energy efficient beam squint mitigation in phased array antennas in communication systems are described. One communication system includes a first register to store a first value indicative of a mode of operation of the communication system and a second register to store a value corresponding to a first time duration. The communication system includes antenna elements, digital beamforming (DBF) devices, phase shifters, and delay circuitry. In a first mode, the delay circuitry does not delay a first signal and, in a second mode, the delay circuitry delays a second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Sunny Sharma
  • Patent number: 11639993
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes an antenna composed of an end-fire array antenna and including a plurality of antenna elements; and a circuit board in which the plurality of antenna elements is disposed side by side in a first direction. At least one of the plurality of antenna elements is parallel to a substrate surface of the circuit board. A directivity of at least one of the plurality of antenna elements is set to a third direction tilted with respect to the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiozaki, Yuto Suzuki, Tooru Miura, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11637613
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for mitigating interference in a channel having multiple users can include: determining a starting angle based on a direction of a signal of interest (SOI); iteratively steering a beam away from the starting angle in opposite directions and calculating a grade of the beam; choosing the beam at a current angle as a receive beam based on the beam grade; receiving a signal using the receive beam; and decoding the SOI from one or more interfering signals using successive interference cancellation multi-user detection (SIC MUD) on the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Rachel E. Learned
  • Patent number: 11564020
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) beam transmission component having optical inputs and electrical outputs may include a wavelength selective switch (WSS) that has a plurality of optical WSS outputs. Each optical WSS output may be configured to transmit one or more wavelengths of the incoming optical signals. The RF beam transmission component may include a plurality of photodetectors (PD), each photodetector having an optical PD input coupled to one or more of said plurality of optical WSS outputs and a corresponding electrical output of a plurality of PD electrical outputs. The RF beam transmission component may further include a lens that has a plurality of electrical inputs and each electrical input may be electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of electrical PD outputs. The lens may further have a plurality of electrical lens output ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Mu Xu, Luis Alberto Campos, Zhensheng Jia, Lin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11563510
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Communications by wireless devices may be modified when beam pair links (BPLs) experience decreased link quality. For example, a controlling wireless device may communicate with a secondary wireless device using a set of BPLs. The controlling and secondary wireless device may each cycle through the set of BPLs at respective times of a communication time period. Upon detecting one or more BPLs having a decreased link quality during a portion of the communication time period, the controlling wireless device may transmit a configuration modifying the communications. For instance, the modified communications may include replacing the one or more BPLs with different BPLs having a relatively higher link quality. In other cases, the modified communications may include using repeated transmissions during the portion of the communication time period or excluding the BPLs experiencing decreased link quality from the communication time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Makesh Pravin John Wilson
  • Patent number: 11552696
    Abstract: A relay station includes a beam formation unit capable of emitting multiple beams to multiple respective emission areas. The beam formation unit forms clusters each from two or more of the emission areas, and emits the beams based on assignment information indicating which slot is assigned to which of the emission areas on a per cluster basis. One emission area belongs to multiple clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi
  • Patent number: 11533246
    Abstract: Intelligent network probe placement optimization (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. A method can comprise determining, from an inventory database, physical interfaces and service paths for data traffic to be monitored, according to a two-way active management protocol, with respect to network interfaces between cloud compute elements in a leaf-spine cloud fabric and radio access network equipment, based on the cloud compute elements, determining directed acyclic graph information representative of a directed acyclic graph of connections between the cloud compute elements and other cloud compute elements in the leaf-spine cloud fabric other than the cloud compute elements, and based on the directed acyclic graph information, determining a number and a distribution of probes to be employed at at least some of the physical interfaces and the service paths to monitor a parameter of the data traffic according to the two-way active management protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kartik Pandit, Kevin D'Souza
  • Patent number: 11525911
    Abstract: Systems and methods to control a radar system to perform cross-traffic management in a vehicle with a trailer involve determining a location of the trailer behind the vehicle, and adjusting an initial field of view of the radar system to a modified field of view that excludes the location of the trailer. One or more other vehicles are detected with the radar system having the modified field of view. A cross-traffic alert is implemented based on the detecting the one or more other vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jay H. Sim, Justin K. Francisco, Kevin G. Korchmaros
  • Patent number: 11522590
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a first antenna circuit that forms a beam selected from among a plurality of first beams through a beamforming process performed for communication using a millimeter wave band and a monitor that displays a first pattern indicating a radiation direction of the selected beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Naganori Shirakata, Masayuki Shimizu, Koji Takinami
  • Patent number: 11496192
    Abstract: Phased array antenna systems and methods for operating phased array antenna systems to efficiently generate multiple beams from a single phased array aperture are disclosed. Elements included in a phased array antenna are randomly assigned to generate one of first or second beams. A phase index for the first set of elements is iterated n times, and a total difference in phase amounts for neighboring elements belonging to different ones of the first and second sets is calculated for each of the n iterations. The phase index resulting in the smallest calculated difference is applied to generate the first beam. The first and second beams are generated from the single phased array aperture simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Zachary T. Miers, Ryan Jennings
  • Patent number: 11469499
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, an antenna apparatus may include: an array antenna including a sub-array, a power divider, and a reconfigurable phase shifter circuit, the reconfigurable phase shifter circuit may be configured to provide a first phase shift value based on a switch in a first state, and provide a second phase shift value different from the first phase shift value based on the switch in a second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoongeon Kim, Seungho Choi, Seungtae Ko, Youngsub Kim, Youngju Lee
  • Patent number: 11463134
    Abstract: Wi-Fi communication is further secured by perturbation of a spatial mapping matrix. In an embodiment channel state information is obtained from a receiving device in a wireless network through the wireless network. A first set of beam steering vectors is derived based on the channel state information to direct a radio signal to the receiving device. A second set of beam steering vectors is derived based on the channel state information to direct a radio signal other than to the receiving device. A perturbation matrix is generated. A spatial mapping matrix is formed by combining the first and the second set of beam steering vectors with a perturbation matrix. Data symbols to be transmitted are pre-coded to the receiving device using the spatial mapping matrix and transmitted through the wireless network to the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Sayak Roy, Ankit Sethi, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 11438044
    Abstract: Solutions to determine how to form beams when co-operating multiple-input multiple-output antenna panels are used are disclosed. Beams are formed according to sets of beamforming weights corresponding to minimized total transmit power from an antenna array of interest to served terminal devices. Optimization to minimize total transmit power subject to a predefined constraint on a minimum allowable expected value of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, SINR, is performed. In the optimization expected values of SINR for a terminal device are calculated based on based on the sets of beamforming weights for at least the served terminal devices, and weighted second order statistics, wherein a weighting factor for second order statistics between the served terminal devices and the antenna array is one and weighting factors for the other second order statistics less than one. The second order statistics are included in maintained channel state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Olli Juhani Piirainen, Jari Vilho Ylioinas
  • Patent number: 11425627
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may determine, for a user equipment (UE) operating in a mobility state, route information. The BS may transmit, to the UE, information identifying a set of beams based at least in part on the route information. The UE may perform a set of neighbor cell measurements, in connection with movement along the predicted route, using the set of beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ran Berliner, Guy Wolf, Shay Landis
  • Patent number: 11424811
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an antenna array circuitry for analog beamforming, the antenna array circuitry comprising: a plurality of antenna elements, wherein each antenna element is configured to receive a respective analog signal (r(1,t), r(2,t), r(N,t)), wherein the plurality of antenna elements is adjustable based on a code-word, wherein the code-word comprises respective phase configurations (?p(1), ?p(2), ?p(N)) of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the code-word is based on a superposition of a predetermined set of basic code-words, wherein each basic code-word associates with a corresponding sub-beam, wherein a main radiation lobe of the corresponding sub-beam points in a predefined spatial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Ansgar Scherb, Andre Janssen, Bertram Gunzelmann, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Holger Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 11415668
    Abstract: A switching device for a radar target emulator is provided comprising: at least one first switch arrangement and a second switch arrangement, each having a branching device designed to receive a first input signal and diverge it into a branch signal and a first output signal, a switch adapted to transmit the branch signal in a first switching state within the switch arrangement and to not transmit in a second switching state, and adding means designed to emit the signal transmitted in the first switching state of the switch, at least as components of a second output signal. The first switching arrangement and the second switching arrangement are interconnected in such a way that a first input signal of the second switching arrangement comprises a first output signal of the first switching arrangement, or a second input signal of the second switching arrangement comprises a second output of the first switching arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Gruber, Michael Ernst Gadringer, Helmut Schreiber, Michael Vorderderfler
  • Patent number: 11374630
    Abstract: A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from a base station, wherein the CSI-RS is related to at least one panel of an antenna array of the base station; generating CSI on the basis of the CSI-RS and a codebook according to a specific shape of the at least one panel; and reporting the CSI to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Sogang University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Jiyeong Yang, Wonjin Sung, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 11366232
    Abstract: The system and method for dynamic mode forming for a global positioning/global navigation system. The system having a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) mounted on a platform; an antenna electronics subsystem configured for dynamically maximizing gain in the controlled reception pattern antenna; and a global positioning/global navigation receiver subsystem configured for null processing, wherein a state of the platform is used to modify a reference mode and a plurality of auxiliary modes for the controlled reception pattern antenna in real-time based on an apriori look up table (LUT) to dynamically maximize a gain of the controlled reception pattern antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Martin F. Ryba
  • Patent number: 11336028
    Abstract: An omnidirectional MIMO antenna system includes a multi-panel antenna, each panel including a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of beam forming networks employing Butler matrices. Each Butler matrix has the same number of input ports and output ports. The total number of the input ports of the Butler matrices is equal to the number of ports of the MIMO antenna, each of the input ports receiving the same signal. Each of the output ports of each of the Butler matrices is coupled to an antenna element within the plurality of the antenna elements, such that the multi-panel antenna exhibits a quasi-omnidirectional beam pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS ANTENNA INC
    Inventors: Lin-Ping Shen, Seyed Hamidreza Jamali
  • Patent number: 11336327
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling base stations (121, 122) to coordinate for canceling cross-link interference (380). The techniques and apparatuses described herein overcome challenges that a single base station (121) might otherwise face in trying to compensate a reception (131) by the base station (121) for cross-link interference (382) from a transmission (132) by another base station (122). The techniques and apparatuses described herein enable the base stations (121, 122) to form coordination sets to exchange information to enable the base stations (121, 122) to accurately reconstruct cross-link interference (380) and ultimately cancel the cross-link interference (380) to improve link quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 11329398
    Abstract: An antenna device is presented. The antenna device comprises: a conformal antenna body which has a desired geometry corresponding to a front portion of a platform on which the antenna device is to be mounted, and an antenna unit carried by the antenna body. The antenna unit comprises at least one phased array of antenna elements. The antenna elements of each array are arranged in a spaced-apart relationship in a closed loop path along a circumference of the antenna body having a desired geometry corresponding to a front portion of platform on which the antenna unit is to be mounted. Each of the antenna elements is configured as an end-fire antenna element capable of emitting linearly polarized radiation, the array of the antenna elements being thereby operable as a forward looking end-fire antenna array, enabling electronic steering of an antenna beam by controllably modifying phases of the antenna elements of each array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Vladimir Rojanski
  • Patent number: 11323865
    Abstract: A system is described for tracking vehicle position using a smart phone or similar device as an active transponder that communicates with roadside equipment. The system may uses existing RF transceivers on the smart-phone, such as Bluetooth® LE or WiFi to periodically transmit an identifying message. Road-based equipment detects and locates the smart phone. In a further aspect, the smart phone is alerted by roadside beacons and responds with identification information. Transaction processing may be performed either on the smart phone or by roadside or back office equipment. The system may be used for automated roadway tolling and monitoring and also for access control. A coded card may be scanned by the smart card to enter identification for access control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Amtech Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Gravelle, John Todd Elson, Greg Lantz, Michael Melville, Paul Hamel, Yousuf Kamal
  • Patent number: 11309634
    Abstract: A novel synthetic uniform circular array (SUCA) method for generating vortex electromagnetic (EM) wave carrying high orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode has the following steps. N antenna elements are placed radially to form a uniform circular array (UCA), where N is a positive integer. By rotating the array elements to various spatial locations, modifying their feeding phases, and superimposing the generated fields at various spatial locations, SUCA can beat the limit of space and configure more array elements to generate vortex electromagnetic (EM) waves carrying high mode OAMs. Meanwhile, due to the more synthetic array elements and smaller aperture than the traditional UCA, the purity of OAM mode is higher and it is more flexible to adjust the main lobe directions of these vortex waves carrying different OAM modes, and can generate vortex EM waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Haibo Jiang, Zijun Chen, Yubin Gong, Yang Yang, Shaomeng Wang, Chengbo Gui, Jiangnan Fu, Xinyang He
  • Patent number: 11309629
    Abstract: Base station antennas include a plurality of multiplexer filters and a multi-column array of radiating elements that includes a plurality of sub-arrays. Each filter may have a first and second ports that are configured to pass RF signals in respective first and second frequency bands and a third common port that is coupled to a respective one of a plurality of sub-arrays. These antennas also include first frequency band ports that are coupled to the first ports of respective subsets of the multiplexer filters and second frequency band ports that are coupled to the second ports of at least some of the multiplexer filters. The antenna may operate as a MIMO sector antenna in the first frequency band and as a sector-splitting antenna in the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11303333
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for performing beamforming optimization for a MIMO architecture. The apparatus maintains, in a database, channel state information of a plurality of radio channels comprising first and second order statistics. The apparatus calculates, separately for each of two or more remote radio units using an eigenbeamforming scheme, first sets of beamforming weights based on the second order statistics. Then, the apparatus performs, for each terminal device, single-user MIMO optimization between the two or more remote radio units to maximize a pre-defined metric, being a mutual information metric or signal-to-interference-plus-noise, based on first sets of beamforming weights and the first order statistics. The result, for each terminal device, is a second set of beamforming weights. The apparatus causes transmitting data using beams formed by applying both first and second sets of optimized beamforming weights at the two or more remote radio units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Olli Piirainen, Jari Ylioinas
  • Patent number: 11269052
    Abstract: A signal processing method is provided. First, at least one transmitted signal is output to at least one target, and the target reflects at least one reflected signal to receiving antennas, which then generate receiving signals upon receipt of the reflected signal. Next, the transmitted signal and each receiving signal are processed to generate processing signals. The processing signals are arranged in a form of matrix, to generate a channel coefficient matrix having M×N channel coefficient matrix blocks. Next, the channel coefficient matrix is divided into Ndivide×Mdivide secondary channel coefficient matrices, which are then substituted into a snapshot vector matrix equation to generate a snapshot vector matrix for calculating an angle of the target. The signal processing method can establish an optimal secondary channel coefficient matrix arrangement by using a special signal preprocessing manner, to improve the resolution and accuracy of the estimated angle parameter of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Ta-Sung Lee, Yu-Chien Lin, Yun-Han Pan
  • Patent number: 11259212
    Abstract: A dynamic satellite load balancing system measures geographic position and travel information of in-flight aircraft in a fleet of aircraft equipped to establish in-flight connectivity services from a plurality of satellite beams. The in-flight aircraft include an on-board satellite map program with satellite map parameters to indicate which satellite beam of a group of available satellite beams is the most desirable based on the in-flight aircraft's geographic location. The system selects in-flight aircraft, determines load balanced satellite map parameters for the selected aircraft, and transmits the load balanced satellite map parameters to the aircraft to assemble load balanced satellite map programs to relieve wireless data communication saturation conditions on one or more of the satellite beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
    Inventors: David J. Montsma, Erhard G. Trudrung, Paul J. Powers, Marc A. Nesheim
  • Patent number: 11239891
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a report indicating that a cooperative reception group including the UE and one or more other UEs connected to the UE over an out-of-band link supports one or more downlink transmit beamforming techniques. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the one or more downlink transmit beamforming techniques supported by the cooperative reception group, a downlink transmit precoder associated with relaxed beamforming nulling. The UE may decode a downlink transmission received from the base station based at least in part on the downlink transmit precoder and one or more decoded bits received from the one or more other UEs in the cooperative reception group. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Xiaoxia Zhang, Weiliang Zeng, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 11223140
    Abstract: A holographic antenna includes a transmission line and a plurality of interdigital capacitor (IDC) slots respectively formed along the transmission line. The holographic antenna also includes an active tuning device connected to each IDC slot from the plurality of IDC slots. Each active tuning device is configured to provide a holographic pattern on the plurality of IDC slots in response to the holographic antenna transmitting or receiving an electromagnetic signal. The holographic pattern is controllable for scanning an electromagnetic beam by the holographic antenna. The holographic antenna also includes a biasing source coupled to each active tuning device and configured to control its respective operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Hanseung Lee, Ryan G. Quarfoth, Amit Madanlal Patel, James H. Schaffner
  • Patent number: 11211719
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement (1) comprising a dual polarized antenna array (10) and a reconfigurable feed network (17) connected thereto is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON
    Inventors: Sven Petersson, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11209538
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave three-dimensional holographic imaging method and system. The method comprises: transmitting a continuous frequency wave to a measured human body, and receiving an echo signal reflected back; performing Fourier transform, phase compensation, inverse Fourier transform, and “non-uniform sampling to uniform sampling” interpolation; and projecting three-dimensional echo data to obtain two-dimensional reconstruction data, and generating a two-dimensional reconstructed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF TERAHERTZ AND INNOVATION
    Inventors: Shukai Zhao, Lingxia Guo, Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Hanjiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11211982
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may select a lens, of a set of candidate lenses, and a butler matrix, of a set of candidate butler matrixes, to communicate a signal with a second wireless communication device, wherein the lens is spaced, from the butler matrix, at a distance that is at least a far field length of the lens for a frequency associated with the signal. The first wireless communication device may communicate, with the second wireless communication device, the signal via a beam of the butler matrix and the lens. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM incorporated
    Inventors: Idan Michael Horn, Yehonatan Dallal
  • Patent number: 11201388
    Abstract: A base station antenna (BSA) system includes a radio-frequency (RF) generator having a plurality of power-amplifying circuits therein, and an antenna, which includes a plurality of columns of radiating elements. These radiating elements are electrically coupled by RF signal routing to a corresponding plurality of ports of the antenna that receive a corresponding plurality of RF input signals. These RF input signals have respective amplitudes and phases that support the concurrent generation of three spaced-apart RF beams by the antenna and are derived from respective RF signals generated by the plurality of power-amplifying circuits. The RF input signals including: (i) a first RF input signal defined by at least two linearly superposed RF signals of equivalent frequency having unequal combinations of amplitude and phase weighting, and (ii) a second RF input signal defined by at least two linearly superposed RF signals of equivalent frequency having unequal combinations of amplitude and phase weighting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Martin L. Zimmerman, Björn Lindmark
  • Patent number: RE49169
    Abstract: A PDMA terminal (1000) establishes communication by forming a plurality of spatial paths to another single radio apparatus. A plurality of antennas constituting an array antenna are divided into a plurality of subarrays corresponding to the plurality of spatial paths respectively. An adaptive array processing unit (USP) can perform an adaptive array processing for each of the plurality of subarrays. A memory (MMU) stores in advance information on the number of antennas associated with the number of spatial paths that can be formed by the array antenna. A control unit (CNP) controls a processing to transmit possible multiplicity information to another radio apparatus at a prescribed timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Hera Wireless S.A.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Doi
  • Patent number: RE49182
    Abstract: A PDMA terminal establishes communication by forming a plurality of spatial paths to another single radio apparatus. A plurality of antennas constituting an array antenna are divided into a plurality of subarrays corresponding to the plurality of spatial paths respectively. An adaptive array processing unit can perform an adaptive array processing for each of the plurality of subarrays. A memory stores in advance information on the number of antennas associated with the number of spatial paths that can be formed by the array antenna. A control unit controls a processing to transmit possible multiplicity information to another radio apparatus at a prescribed timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hera Wireless S.A.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Doi