Patents Assigned to KYMETA CORPORATION
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Patent number: 11217890Abstract: A method and apparatus for DC offset correction in an antenna aperture are described. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises: an array of antenna elements having liquid crystal (LC); drive circuitry coupled to the array and having a plurality of drivers, each driver of the plurality of drivers coupled to an antenna element of the array and operable to apply a drive voltage to the antenna element; and voltage correction logic coupled to the drive circuitry adjust drive voltages to compensate for an offset between a first magnitude of a first voltage applied to the LC of each antenna element during a first interval of drive polarity and a second magnitude of a second voltage applied to the LC of said each antenna element during a second interval of drive polarity opposite the drive polarity of the first interval.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Steven Linn, Cagdas Varel
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Patent number: 11165160Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing an antenna are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Taylor Stokes, J T Repp, Ron Radko, Jonas Nicholson, Alexander L. Bautista, Jr.
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Patent number: 11133584Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed herein for a cylindrically fed antenna and method for using the same. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna feed to input a cylindrical feed wave and a tunable slotted array coupled to the antenna feed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Adam Bily, Nathan Kundtz, Mikala Johnson
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Patent number: 11109451Abstract: A heater for a radio frequency (RF) antenna and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an antenna comprises a physical antenna aperture having an array of RF antenna elements; and a plurality of heating elements, each heating element being between pairs of RF elements of the array of RF elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan Stevenson, Ken Harp, Steven Linn, Mike Severson
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Patent number: 11067964Abstract: System and methods are disclosed for improving manufacturing processes, improving manufactured products, and improving deployed devices. The devices can be reconfigurable holographic antennas (“antennas”). Manufacturing test results for a plurality of antennas is collected. Field performance data and antenna management information is collected for a plurality of deployed antennas. Query selection criteria, machine learning correlation criteria and a minimum correlation threshold are passed to a server to query for matching records from a data store and to perform machine learning on the query results to generate improvements to processes, manufactured antenna performance and deployed antenna performance.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Klassen, Jonas Nicholson, Benjamin Ash, Mark Johnson
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Patent number: 11063661Abstract: A beam splitting hand off systems architecture and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: generating a first beam with a single electronically steered flat-panel antenna to track a first satellite; generating a second beam with the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna to track a second satellite simultaneously while generating the first beam to track the first satellite; and handing off traffic from the first satellite to the second satellite.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Bruce Rothaar, Tim Mason, Turner Noel, Luis Glass, Abdolreza Shafie, Mohsen Sazegar
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Patent number: 11063362Abstract: A portable flat panel antenna system and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the portable satellite antenna apparatus comprises a flat panel antenna and a container to house the antenna, the container having at least one radio-frequency (RF) transparent material through which the antenna is operable to transmit and receive satellite communications.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Ben Posthuma, Adam Nonis, David Lamme
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Patent number: 11049658Abstract: A storage capacitor and method for using the same in an antenna aperture are described. In one embodiment, an antenna comprises a physical antenna aperture having first and second substrates forming an array of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements that are controlled and operable together to form a beam for the frequency band for use in holographic beam steering, wherein each of the antenna elements is coupled to a circuit to supply a voltage to the said each antenna element and a storage capacitor formed with a plurality of conductive layers (e.g., metal layers) on a first substrate, wherein top and bottom conductive layers of the plurality of conductive layers are at a first voltage that is equal to a second voltage on a conductive layer (e.g., a metal layer) of the second substrate to reduce parasitic capacitance produced between the storage capacitor and the conductive layer on the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Steven Linn, Cagdas Varel
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Patent number: 11018912Abstract: A method and apparatus for using Euclidean modulation in an antenna are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for controlling an antenna comprises mapping a desired modulation to achievable modulation states, mapping modulation values associated with the achievable modulation states to one or more control parameters, and controlling radio frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements using the one or more control parameters to perform beam forming.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Patrick Bowen, Nathan Kundtz
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Patent number: 11016746Abstract: System and methods are disclosed for remote management of mobile satellite antenna modules having an antenna subsystem module (ASM). An ASM periodically transmits a check-in message and metrics data to a server. The server analyzes the check-in message and metrics data to determine a state of operation of the antenna, and determine one or more management commands to improve the performance of the ASM. Information in the metrics data received from each ASM can be queried and processed using machine learning to determine correlation between attributes of the ASMs and performance of the ASMs.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Klassen, Ron Radko, Jonas Nicholson, Kevin KleinOsowski, Taylor Stokes, David Cooper, Greg Eigsti
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Patent number: 10985457Abstract: Monitoring and compensating for environmental and other conditions affecting antenna elements of an antenna is described. The conditions may affect radio frequency (RF) liquid crystal of the antenna elements. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises a physical antenna aperture having an array of surface scattering antenna elements that are controlled and operable together to form a beam for the frequency band for use in holographic beam steering and a compensation controller to perform compensation on the antenna elements based on monitored antenna conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Tung Pham, Phillip Izdebski, Mikala C. Johnson, Taylor Stokes, Ryan A. Stevenson, Jacob Tyler Repp, Michael Severson
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Patent number: 10978800Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for antenna element placement are disclosed. In one embodiment, an antenna comprises an antenna feed to input a cylindrical feed wave; a single physical antenna aperture having at least one antenna array of antenna elements, where the antenna elements are located on a plurality of concentric rings concentrically located relative to an antenna feed, wherein rings of the plurality of concentric rings are separated by a ring-to-ring distance, wherein a first distance between elements along rings of the plurality of concentric rings is a function of a second distance between rings of the plurality of concentric rings; and a controller to control each antenna element of the array separately using matrix drive circuitry, where each of the antenna elements is uniquely addressed by the matrix drive circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Mohsen Sazegar, Nathan Kundtz
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Patent number: 10965027Abstract: A method and apparatus for RF ripple correction in an antenna aperture are described. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises: an array of antenna elements having liquid crystal (LC); drive circuitry coupled to the array and having a plurality of drivers, each driver of the plurality of drivers coupled to an antenna element of the array and operable to apply a drive voltage to the antenna element; and radio-frequency (RF) ripple correction logic coupled to the drive circuitry to adjust drive voltages to compensate for ripple.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Cagdas Varel, Ryan Stevenson, Michael Severson
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Patent number: 10948528Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing radio-frequency antenna elements are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Cagdas Varel, Ryan Stevenson, Steven Linn, Michael Severson, Colin Stuart Short, Mohsen Sazegar
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Patent number: 10903572Abstract: Dual resonator for flat panel antennas is disclosed. In one example, an antenna comprises a single physical antenna aperture having at least two spatially interleaved antenna sub-arrays of antenna elements operable as two resonator sets with a frequency offset with respect to each other. The antenna sub-arrays are operated together to form a beam in the desired frequency band. Each sub-array has a modulation pattern calculated based on holographic beam steering algorithms. The frequency offset between the sub-arrays can be achieved, e.g., by geometrical differences of the radiative antenna elements or differences in electromagnetic loading of the radiative antenna elements. By using two or dual resonator sets with frequency offset, significant improvement to dynamic bandwidth can be achieved in contrast to a single resonator antenna by expanding the dynamic bandwidth range with dual resonators.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventor: Mohsen Sazegar
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Patent number: 10892553Abstract: Antennas and methods for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an aperture having a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements, the plurality of RF radiating antenna elements being grouped into three or more sets of RF radiating antenna elements, with each set being separately controlled to generate a beam at a frequency band in a first mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Mohsen Sazegar, Ibrahim Nassar
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Patent number: 10884094Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for acquiring and tracking a satellite signal with an antenna. In one embodiment, the method comprises a) perturbing one or more of roll, pitch and yaw angles of an antenna orientation to create variant orientations associated with a first search pattern; b) computing new scan and polarization angles, in response to perturbed roll, pitch and yaw angles, for each of the variant orientations; c) receiving a radio-frequency (RF) signal from a satellite for each of the variant orientations; d) generating one or more receiver metrics representing a received RF signal associated with each of the variant orientations; e) selecting, as a new orientation, one of the variant orientations based on the one or more receiver metrics; and f) repeating a)-e) with the new orientation with a second search pattern narrower than the first search pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Mikala Johnson, Timothy Mason, Bruce Rothaar, Todd Richard Czerner
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Patent number: 10886635Abstract: An antenna apparatus and method for use of the same are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises a single physical antenna aperture having at least two spatially interleaved antenna arrays of antenna elements, the antenna arrays being operable independently and simultaneously at distinct frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Adam Bily, Mohsen Sazegar, Nathan Kundtz, Ryan Stevenson
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Patent number: 10886605Abstract: An antenna apparatus and method for using the same are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Cagdas Varel, Steven Howard Linn, Felix Chen
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Patent number: D923612Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan Stevenson, Steven Linn, Robert E. Morey, Mohsen Sazegar, Stephen Olfert, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, Ken Harp, Tom Hower, David Levesque, Michael W. Slota, Alex Truesdale Perry, Colin Stuart Short, Tung Pham, Andrew Turner, Mohamed Sabri