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  • Patent number: 12230893
    Abstract: A method of selecting an antenna beam includes: selecting a beam port of a first phase progression matrix having a first subset of antenna ports terminated in respective first characteristic impedances; selecting a beam port of a second phase progression matrix that is separate from the first phase progression matrix and has a second subset of antenna ports terminated in respective second characteristic impedances; and at least one of: combining a first receive signal portion from the selected beam port of the first phase progression matrix and a second receive signal portion from the selected beam port of the second phase progression matrix, or providing a first portion of a transmit signal to the selected beam port of the first phase progression matrix and a second portion of the transmit signal to the selected beam port of the second phase progression matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jefy Alex Jayamon, Jeremy Darren Dunworth
  • Patent number: 12169235
    Abstract: A method for operating a synthetic aperture radar, SAR, mode, in an SAR instrument, wherein the method comprises the steps of: acquiring at least one subswath positioned in an across track direction of a movement of the SAR instrument, wherein the at least one subswath is acquired during at least one acquisition burst duration and/or at a predetermined radio frequency bandwidth; adjusting the at least one acquisition burst duration and/or the predetermined radio frequency bandwidth and/or a number of parallel simultaneous subswaths and/or an inserted burst duration for a further subswath based upon a predetermined parameter; constructing an SAR image based on the acquired at least one subswath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Voelker, Jung-Hyo Kim, Friedhelm Rostan
  • Patent number: 12113296
    Abstract: A single stage unequal power combiner is proposed. Instead of conventional combiner plus impedance transformer of 2-stage unequal combiner, the single stage combiner gets rid of the input impedance transformer. The single stage combiner supports adjustable transmission line impedance and reasonable mismatch loss, assuming that the power ratio of the input signals is within a certain range. The single stage combiner also has an adjustable isolation resistor for different power ratios. A structure of switchable branch characteristic impedance, switchable isolation resistor for the unequal combiner is proposed as the preferred embodiment. In one advantageous aspect, broader coverage angle in a single array module can be realized via an antenna diversity switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Tubis Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Siqi Zhu, James Wang
  • Patent number: 12050239
    Abstract: Processes and apparatuses for antenna frequency matching are disclosed. In one embodiment, a calibration process for an antenna having radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements comprises: determining resonance frequencies of RF radiating antenna elements in a group of RF radiating antenna elements; selecting voltages to apply to the RF radiating antenna elements to cause resonance frequencies to match between the RF radiating antenna elements in the group of RF radiating antenna elements when the voltages are applied; and storing, in memory of the antenna, voltage information indicative of the voltages for driving the RF radiating antenna elements in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cagdas Varel, Steven H. Linn, Seyed Mohamad Amin Momeni Hasan Abadi, Hussein Esfahlani, Mohsen Sazegar, Ryan Stevenson
  • Patent number: 11990681
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a traveling-wave antenna array comprising a plurality of adjacent metamaterial surface antennas comprising a waveguide or a cavity, each adjacent metamaterial surface antenna comprising an array of metamaterial radiators coupled to a surface of the waveguide or the cavity, each metamaterial radiator comprising an individually addressable tunable component that can be tuned over a spectral bandwidth to generate different radiation patterns. The apparatus further includes a phase diversity feed coupled to the traveling-wave antenna array and configured to provide adjustable phase diverse input to two or more of the plurality of adjacent metamaterial surface antennas, the phase diverse input comprising a first phase for a first traveling-wave antenna and a second phase for a second traveling-wave antenna, the first phase being different from the second phase, wherein the phase diverse input is-selected to suppress grating lobes for a directed beam pattern selected for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Michael Boyarsky, Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani, David R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11902005
    Abstract: Using an array antenna in which a spacing between adjacent antenna elements is constant, each of combinations of two antenna elements in positions symmetrical relative to a center of an array is connected by wire connections in two paths, and a path length between the antenna elements in the combination of two antenna elements is the same in all of the combinations: a phase adjustment amount is calculated for each wire connection aside from a reference wire connection on the basis of an arrival direction of a wireless signal received by one antenna element in the combination of two antenna elements and a re-radiation direction of a wireless signal transmitted as a re-radiated wave by the other antenna element corresponding to the one antenna element, taking into account a phase difference between a signal transmitted by the wire connections connected to the one antenna element and a signal transmitted by the reference wire connection; and phase rotation is applied to the signal transmitted by the wire connect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Ito, Yushi Shirato, Naoki Kita, Takeshi Onizawa
  • Patent number: 11742593
    Abstract: A wideband bisector antenna has a plurality of antenna elements disposed in horizontal rows, a left beam bi-sector array segment at one section of the antenna comprising a plurality of the horizontal rows of elements, and a right beam bi-sector array segment at one section of the antenna comprising a plurality of the horizontal rows of elements. At least one horizontal row on the antenna is shared in both the left beam bi-sector array segment and the right beam bi-sector array segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Communication Components Antenna Inc.
    Inventor: Nasrin Hojjat
  • Patent number: 11742590
    Abstract: A circularly polarized array antenna is provided. The circularly polarized array antenna includes a ground plane and a plurality of circularly polarized antennas. Each of the circularly polarized antennas is configured to communicate over a frequency band ranging from 24 gigahertz (GHz) to 52 GHz. Each of the circularly polarized antennas includes a column substrate coupled to the ground plane. The column substrate includes a plurality of faces. Each of the circularly polarized antennas further includes a plurality of isolated magnetic dipole elements. Each of the isolated magnetic dipole elements is disposed on a different face of the column substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego), Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Singh, Sebastian Rowson
  • Patent number: 11714164
    Abstract: A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor configured to be disposed at a vehicle. The radar sensor includes a plurality of antennas that include a plurality of transmitting antennas that transmit radio signals and a plurality of receiving antennas that receive radio signals. The radar sensor provides radar data to a processor that processes the provided radar data to detect an object present in the field of sensing of the radar sensor. At least some antennas of the plurality of antennas include waveguides having T-shaped slots, with each T-shaped slot having a longitudinal portion and a transverse portion that extends transverse from the longitudinal portion, and with a width of the transverse portion being less than a length of the longitudinal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wilhelm Johann Wolfgang Wöhlte, Fabrizio Gentili
  • Patent number: 11710890
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing that includes a front plate facing a first direction, a back plate facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side member surrounding a space between the front plate and the back plate and at least a portion of which is formed of a metal material. A display is viewable through the front plate, and an antenna module is positioned in the space and includes a first surface facing a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction, a second surface facing a fourth direction different from the third direction, and at least one conductive element extended in a fifth direction, which is perpendicular to the third direction and the fourth direction and faces a first portion of the side member, adjacent to the side member, and between the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heecheul Moon, Sangyoup Seok, Kwonho Son
  • Patent number: 11688943
    Abstract: A radiation pattern reconfigurable antenna includes an input port, a signal divider, a filter, and first and second radiators. The signal divider is connected to the input port and configured to divide a signal at the input port into a first output and a second output. The filter is connected to the second output, wherein the filter is configured to filter signal within a first frequency band and to pass signals within a second frequency band. The first radiator is configured to receive the signal from the first output of the signal divider, wherein the first radiator receives signals within the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The second radiator is connected to the filter to receive signals provided within the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Mingjian Li, Zhengzheng Li
  • Patent number: 11682838
    Abstract: A multiband antenna structure having an open rectangular box shape is arranged to provide identical electrical lengths for all of its radiating elements notwithstanding that the physical dimensions of portions of the multiband antenna may not be identical. Advantageously, such a multiband antenna may be interleaved with a 5G antenna array having unequal spacing between the 5G antennas or having an offset between at least one of the rows and the columns. This may be achieved by incorporating a dielectric material in at least one radiating element, by forming a radiating element with a serpentine shape, by having a radiating element follow a chicane, by incorporating a reflector of a 5G array, or by employing capacitive coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventors: Jerome Plet, Zied Charaabi, Thomas Julien, Jean-Pierre Harel
  • Patent number: 11552669
    Abstract: A system and method for precision array processing using semi-coherent transceivers are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Tarana Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Branlund, Harry May
  • Patent number: 11550017
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for estimating angle of arrival of a radio signal in a radio communications network. A method is performed by a receiving radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining measurements of the radio signal as received in two receive beams covering a given angular sector. The two receive beams are created by analog beamforming in an antenna array. The receive beams have different complex beam patterns and at any angle within the given angular sector at most one of the complex beam patterns has gain below a threshold. The method comprises estimating the angle of arrival of the radio signal by comparing a complex amplitude of the measurements in the two receive beams to a discriminator function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fredrik Athley, Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 11515622
    Abstract: Base station antennas are provided herein. A base station antenna includes a multiband beam-former array having a plurality of vertical columns of radiating elements. In some embodiments, at least two of the vertical columns are commonly fed for a first frequency band of the multiband beam-former array that is lower than a second frequency band of the multiband beam-former array. Related methods of operation are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: XiaoHua Hou, Chengcheng Tang, Xiangyang Ai, Peter J. Bisiules, Mohammad Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani
  • Patent number: 11444377
    Abstract: A radiation pattern reconfigurable antenna includes an input port, a signal divider, a filter, and first and second radiators. The signal divider is connected to the input port and configured to divide a signal at the input port into a first output and a second output. The filter is connected to the second output, wherein the filter is configured to filter signal within a first frequency band and to pass signals within a second frequency band. The first radiator is configured to receive the signal from the first output of the signal divider, wherein the first radiator receives signals within the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The second radiator is connected to the filter to receive signals provided within the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Mingjian Li, Zhengzheng Li
  • Patent number: 11374318
    Abstract: [Object] There is provided a Butler matrix circuit that makes it possible to further reduce volume and power consumption and to obtain symmetrical radiation characteristics. [Solution] There is provided a Butler matrix circuit including: four processing-circuit-side terminals; four antenna-side terminals; a first 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a first processing-circuit-side terminal and a second processing-circuit-side terminal; a second 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a third processing-circuit-side terminal and a fourth processing-circuit-side terminal; a third 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a first antenna-side terminal and a third antenna-side terminal; a fourth 90° hybrid coupler coupled to a second antenna-side terminal and a fourth antenna-side terminal; a first 90° delay circuit provided between the first 90° hybrid coupler and the third 90° hybrid coupler; and a second 90° delay circuit provided between the first 90° hybrid coupler and the fourth 90° hybrid coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya Morita
  • Patent number: 11374634
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting information. The method for transmitting information includes: a digital beam-forming of a receiver is implemented on a received signal; weights of an analog beam-forming of a transmitter are calculated based on weights of the digital beam-forming or channel estimation information of the receiver; and the analog beam-forming of the transmitter is implemented on a signal to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Qingyu Miao, Ming Li, Huaisong Zhu, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11360209
    Abstract: A radar antenna for a flight vehicle that follows a flight path comprises a radio frequency (RF) reflector, and separated first arrays of first RF feed elements to form, with the reflector, respective first fixed radar beams that are directed at the Earth and positionally offset with respect to each other, such that when the radar antenna follows the flight path, the respective first fixed radar beams trace respective first subswaths on the Earth that are separated from each other by respective subswath gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Eagle Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Earl Durham, Robert M. Taylor, Kerry T. Speed, Donald A. Lieb
  • Patent number: 11360202
    Abstract: An FMCW radar sensor having a plurality of antenna elements at a distance from one another in a row, to each of which is assigned a mixer, which produces an intermediate frequency signal, and an evaluation unit that is designed to record the intermediate frequency signal over a measurement period as a function of time and to convert the time signal into a spectrum, and having an angular measuring device in which the spectra obtained from the evaluation devices are evaluated in separate channels. The sensor further including a beamforming device to carry out a beamforming for the signal received from a specified preferred direction by compensating run length differences of the signal to the antenna elements, a summation device forming a sum spectrum through coherent addition of the spectra, and a distance measuring device determining distances of objects in the preferred direction on the basis of the sum spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Marcel Mayer, Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 11336353
    Abstract: Devices, methods and computer programs for wireless communications with rotational beam management are disclosed. Information from past beam tracking stages can be used for a next beam tracking stage, since a next beam codebook to be used for beam scanning depends on an earlier beam codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Majid Nasiri Khormuji, Renaud-Alexandre Pitaval
  • Patent number: 11276939
    Abstract: A phased array antenna system includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) tile sub-arrays. Each RF tile sub-array includes a multiplicity of RF elements, a tile control integrated circuit, a multiplicity of RF integrated circuits and a configuration storage device. The configuration storage device stores data including calibration and configuration information that is unique to the RF tile sub-array and the tile control integrated circuit. The multiplicity of RF integrated circuits, the multiplicity of RF elements, and the configuration storage device are disposed on a single associated RF tile sub-array. The system also includes an antenna controller configured to process data for steering or tracking one or more RF beams by the multiplicity of RF elements. The calibration and configuration information that is unique to the RF tile sub-array is downloaded from the configuration storage device through the tile control integrated circuit to an RF element compensation table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert G. Ford, Frank R. Brogden, Jay W. Clement, Rodney K. Bonebright
  • Patent number: 11264696
    Abstract: A multi-antenna mounting device includes: a mounting member to which two or more antennas are fixable; and a tilt angle adjusting mechanism including an upper adjusting component and a lower adjusting component spaced apart along a length direction of the mounting member. The upper adjusting component includes a plurality of tilt angle adjusting holes arranged in a row, one end of the upper adjusting component is connectable to the mounting member, and the other end is connectable to a user's support pole with a fastening element extending through one of the tilt angle adjusting holes. When the fastening element extends through different tilt angle adjusting holes, the multi-antenna assembly has different mechanical tilt angles relative to the support pole. The lower adjusting component includes a first section and a second section. The second section has a predetermined length and the first section is pivotable relative to the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Shuguang Shao, Puliang Tang, Nengbin Liu, Xiaotuo Wang
  • Patent number: 11217882
    Abstract: An antenna includes a first helical arm and a second helical arm. The first helical arm is wound clockwise along a longitudinal direction of an axis of the antenna, and the second helical arm is wound counterclockwise along the longitudinal direction of the axis of the antenna. The second helical arm and the first helical arm form at least one intersecting point, a first feeding point is disposed on the first helical arm, a second feeding point is disposed on the second helical arm, the first feeding point and the second feeding point are two points symmetrical relative to the axis of the antenna, and any intersecting point of the at least one intersecting point further forms a third feeding point, where the first feeding point and the second feeding point are connected to a first feeding port, and the third feeding point is connected to a second feeding port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Luo, Yi Chen, Chuanan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11169240
    Abstract: Systems and method for determining an angle of arrival of a radio frequency (RF) signal are disclosed. A radio frequency receiving system as disclosed herein can include a plurality of antenna or receiving elements formed on a common plane. A spacing between the receiving elements can be arbitrary. In response to receiving a radio frequency signal, a difference in an integer number of wavelengths that have passed and a difference in a phase of the received signal is determined between each of a plurality of pairs of antenna elements. More particularly, a residual error is calculated for each possible difference in the number of integer wavelengths that can occur as the received signal travels to the elements in each pair of elements. A solution with a minimum residual value is taken as the difference in the actual integer number of wavelengths that have been traversed by the received signal. That integer value and the detected phase difference is applied to determine the angle of arrival.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: James M. Shima
  • Patent number: 11133903
    Abstract: A master application device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central baseband processor, and a network management engine that manages operation of the master application device and end-user application devices. The master application device communicates data streams to the end-user devices utilizing one or more distributed transceivers selected from the plurality of distributed transceivers. The selected distributed transceivers are dynamically configured to switch between spatial diversity mode, frequency diversity mode, multiplexing mode and MIMO mode based on corresponding link quality and propagation environment. Digital signal processing needed for the selected distributed transceivers is performed by the central baseband processor. The network management engine continuously monitors communication environment information to configure beamforming settings and/or antenna arrangement for the selected distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 11088753
    Abstract: A system having an array of antennas with particular weights for signals associated with different groups of antennas. The array of antennas includes a first group of antennas positioned in a middle portion of the array of antennas, a second group of antennas positions at one or more edges of the array of antennas, and a third group of antennas positioned at one or more corners of the array of antennas. The system includes a control module configured to control each respective and tenant in the array of antennas. The control module can further be configured to weight the first group of antennas a first weighting amount, to weight the second group of antennas a second weighting amount and to weight the third group of antennas a third weighting amount. The weighting improves the system's ability to reduce ambiguities in an angle of arrival associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FORTEM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bryan Alan Davis, Matthew Robertson Morin, Nathan James Packard
  • Patent number: 10985457
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tung Pham, Phillip Izdebski, Mikala C. Johnson, Taylor Stokes, Ryan A. Stevenson, Jacob Tyler Repp, Michael Severson
  • Patent number: 10979184
    Abstract: A master application device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central baseband processor, and a network management engine that manages operation of the master application device and end-user application devices. The master application device communicates data streams to the end-user devices utilizing one or more distributed transceivers selected from the plurality of distributed transceivers. The selected distributed transceivers are dynamically configured to switch between spatial diversity mode, frequency diversity mode, multiplexing mode and MIMO mode based on corresponding link quality and propagation environment. Digital signal processing needed for the selected distributed transceivers is performed by the central baseband processor. The network management engine continuously monitors communication environment information to configure beamforming settings and/or antenna arrangement for the selected distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 10944525
    Abstract: A master application device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central baseband processor, and a network management engine that manages operation of the master application device and end-user application devices. The master application device communicates data streams to the end-user devices utilizing one or more distributed transceivers selected from the plurality of distributed transceivers. The selected distributed transceivers are dynamically configured to switch between spatial diversity mode, frequency diversity mode, multiplexing mode and MIMO mode based on corresponding link quality and propagation environment. Digital signal processing needed for the selected distributed transceivers is performed by the central baseband processor. The network management engine continuously monitors communication environment information to configure beamforming settings and/or antenna arrangement for the selected distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 10938124
    Abstract: The disclosed structures and methods are directed to antenna systems configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal in and from different directions. A switchable lens antenna has excitation ports radiating radio-frequency (RF) wave into a parallel-plate waveguide structure, and a frequency selective structure (FSS). The antenna presented herein is configured to operate in two modes depending on a steering angle of the RF wave propagating in the parallel-plate waveguide structure. When the steering angle is about or less than a threshold steering angle, FSS is OFF due to its stubs being electrically disconnected from the parallel-plate waveguide structure. When the steering angle is higher than the threshold, FSS is ON with stubs being electrically connected to the parallel-plate waveguide structure. When ON, FSS provides phase variance to the RF wave propagating in the parallel-plate waveguide structure and increases steering angle of the RF wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Halim Boutayeb, Wenyao Zhai, Morris Repeta
  • Patent number: 10897082
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a steerable phased array antenna having a plurality of antenna elements disposed in a predetermined number of rows, M, and a predetermined number of columns, N, wherein M and N are positive integers; a M number of first beamformer components including phase tapers, wherein each first beamformer component corresponds to a row of antenna elements, and wherein each first beamformer component is operatively connected to the N number of antenna elements in the corresponding row; and a N number of second beamformer components including phase tapers, wherein each second beamformer component corresponds to a column of antenna elements, and wherein each second beamformer component is operatively connected to the M number of antenna elements in the corresponding column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: David J. Legare
  • Patent number: 10880718
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method of operating a receiving terminal in a wireless communication system may include: transmitting, to a transmitting terminal, information on capabilities of the receiving terminal in relation to an independent component analysis (ICA) technique; receiving, from the transmitting terminal, a signal generated based on the capabilities; and decoding the signal using the ICA technique in consideration of the amount of change in the channel for the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Chanhong Kim, Yonggue Han, Yeonghwan Kim, Chungyong Lee
  • Patent number: 10852393
    Abstract: A radar system and method for calibrating a radar system, the method including the steps of: measuring a set of azimuth angles of the radar system to obtain a plurality of measured azimuth array responses, wherein the radar system is physically rotated about a first axis of the radar system between each azimuth angle measurement; measuring a set of elevation angles of the radar system to obtain a plurality of measured elevation array responses, wherein the radar system is physically rotated about a second axis of the radar system between each elevation angle measurement; obtaining an azimuth calibration matrix based on the plurality of measured azimuth array responses and an elevation calibration matrix based on the plurality of measured elevation array responses; and configuring the radar system to apply the azimuth calibration matrix and the elevation calibration matrix to one or more antenna array responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, SILANTRIX LTD.
    Inventors: Dani Raphaeli, Igal Bilik, Oded Bialer
  • Patent number: 10819306
    Abstract: A multiport microwave device includes a first reactive three-port microwave device, a second reactive three-port microwave device, a third reactive three-port microwave device, and a matched four-port microwave device. The four-port microwave device includes first and second input ports and first and second output ports communicatively coupled to one another. A first port of each of the first, second and third three-port microwave devices is operative to receive a microwave signal, and a first output port and a second output port of the four-port microwave device are each operative to output a microwave signal. A second port of the first microwave device is communicatively coupled to a second port of the second microwave device, a second port of the third microwave device is communicatively coupled to a third port of the second microwave device, and a third port of the first microwave device is communicatively coupled to the first input port the four-port microwave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ThinKom Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: William Milroy, Eugene Yum
  • Patent number: 10790584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a directional antenna module comprising: at least one antenna array having at least two antenna elements connected to a 180-degree hybrid providing an inphase summation signal and an out-of-phase summation signal of the antenna signals received from the antenna elements and a switching element adapted to switch between the inphase summation signal and the out-of-phase summation signal output by said 180-degree hybrid in response to a direction finding mode control signal (DFM-CRTL) to provide an antenna output signal at an antenna module output of said directional antenna module. The present invention further relates to a method for direction finding of a signal source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Markus Neinhues
  • Patent number: 10762310
    Abstract: At least some embodiments of the present invention are directed to RFID reader systems, readers, and/or arrangements configured to estimate a directional bearing of an RFID tag. In an embodiment, the present invention is an RFID arrangement configured communicate with an RFID tag via a primary transmit and receive signals and to contemporaneously determine a plurality of RSSI levels of the RFID tag over a 360-degree azimuth range via a plurality of secondary receive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Bekritsky, Michael J. Koch, Charles Burton Swope
  • Patent number: 10750377
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a plurality of transceiver circuits, a memory, and an interface circuit. The memory generally embodies a table associating a plurality of index values with corresponding gain and phase values for each channel of each of the transceiver circuits. In a first mode, the interface circuit may be configured to receive the corresponding gain and phase values associated with each of the plurality of index values and store the corresponding gain and phase values in the table. In a second mode, the interface circuit, in response to receiving one of the index values, configures each channel of each of the transceiver circuits with the corresponding gain and phase values from the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Samet Zihir, Kevin Sheng, Mark Cuezon, Himanshu Khatri
  • Patent number: 10722136
    Abstract: A system detects extravasation or infiltration by segregating active components that drive a passive sensor for economical single use. A receiving antenna of the passive sensor receives a transmitted signal comprising RF electromagnetic power. A first circuit transmits a first portion of the received signal through a body portion. A sensor detects a resultant signal from the body portion. A second circuit combines a reference signal comprising a second portion of the received signal with the resultant signal so as to define an output signal. A transmit antenna transmits the output signal to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventor: Chad E. Bouton
  • Patent number: 10677088
    Abstract: A monitoring system for monitoring environmental conditions for rotary members includes a plurality of stationary reader antennas positioned proximate rotary members. A first sensor is coupled to a first rotary member and a second sensor is coupled to a second rotary member. Each sensor is configured to generate environmental condition data. A key phasor is coupled to a third rotary member and configured to generate key phasor data. The monitoring system also includes a data integrator communicatively coupled to each stationary reader antenna and configured to determine measurement values for the first and second environmental condition based on raw data from each stationary reader antennas and data from the key phasor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NUOVO PIGNONE TECHNOLOGIE SRL
    Inventors: Yongjae Lee, Joseph Alfred Iannotti, Filippo Gerbi
  • Patent number: 10644406
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, an antenna system includes a dielectric antenna having a feed-point, wherein the dielectric antenna is a single antenna having a plurality of antenna beam patterns. At least one cable having a plurality of conductorless dielectric cores is coupled to the feed-point of the dielectric antenna, each of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores corresponding to one of the plurality of antenna beam patterns. A controller, selects one of the plurality of antenna beam patterns and generates a control signal in response thereto. A core selector, responsive to the control signal, couples electromagnetic waves from a source to a selected one of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores, the selected one of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of antenna beam patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Donald J. Barnickel, Farhad Barzegar, Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10644649
    Abstract: An acoustic wave force field generator array that uses a plurality of synchronized oscillating emitters system that effectively blocks noise from passing through an acoustic barrier of wave/bubble pattern forms generated by the rapid oscillation of the integrated magnet and emitter system. The movement of the magnets also produces an EM field that generates a current to at least partially power the driver and speaker systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Chromodynamics II LLC
    Inventor: Renee Marion Kastan Dahl
  • Patent number: 10605911
    Abstract: A system includes a controller having a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-executable instructions stored in the memory to operate the controller. The instructions cause the controller to determine at least two beam patterns for separate scanning receive beams that operate within a field of regard to be scanned by a Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR). The instructions cause the controller to generate beam pattern commands to form the separate scanning receive beams based on the determined beam patterns, the beam pattern commands specify an azimuth beamwidth and a pointing direction for each of the separate scanning receive beams that operate within each portion of the field of regard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan Dale Parker, Jeffrey M. Yang
  • Patent number: 10534168
    Abstract: A light-scanning apparatus according to the present invention is provided with: an optical fiber; a signal-generating portion that generates a driving signal that has a frequency fd different from a resonant frequency fr of the optical fiber; and a driving portion that causes a distal end of the optical fiber to undergo spiral oscillations in accordance with the driving signal, wherein the signal-generating portion generates the driving signal that includes, during one scanning period, a first period in which an amplitude gradually increases from substantially zero to a maximum value and a second period in which the amplitude gradually decreases from the maximum value to substantially zero, and that satisfies conditional expression (1) below. N2 is the number of oscillations of the driving signal in the second period. { Eq . ? 1 } 2 ? 1 N ? ? 2 2 · 12 ( fd fr - 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsuyoshi Shimamoto
  • Patent number: 10511075
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed that includes a dielectric waveguide, a first transmission electrode and a second transmission electrode, and a first receiver electrode and a second receiver electrode. The first transmission electrode and the second transmission electrode that are disposed over and below the dielectric waveguide, respectively, and the first transmission electrode and the second transmission electrode are symmetric with respect to the dielectric waveguide. The first receiver electrode and a second receiver electrode that are disposed over and below the dielectric waveguide, respectively, and the first receiver electrode and the second receiver electrode are symmetric with respect to the dielectric waveguide. The dielectric waveguide is configured to receive a transmission signal from a driver circuit through the first transmission electrode and to transmit the received transmission signal to a receiver circuit through the first receiver electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chewn-Pu Jou, Wen-Shiang Liao
  • Patent number: 10511380
    Abstract: System and method for efficient wideband code division multiplexing in subband domain include: aggregating L analog signals received from L antenna elements into a single aggregated signal, by using code division multiplexing with L code words, where L is an integer greater than 1; converting the single aggregated analog signal to a single aggregated digital signal, by a single analog-to-digital converter (ADC); channelizing the single aggregated digital signal into N subbands, where N is an integer greater than 1; performing circular convolutions of the N subbands with the L code words to demultiplex the channelized signal into L elements per subband; and routing each subband signal of the L elements to N beamforming circuits for performing beamforming on each of the N subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Jason A. Ching, Hao O. Phung, Yueh-Shan Chang
  • Patent number: 10476128
    Abstract: A system includes a platform including a first mounting component and a second mounting component, the platform being secured to an external surface of a structure via the second mounting component, a first network device coupled to the first mounting component, the first network device being part of a first network, and a second network device coupled to a surface of the platform and communicably coupled to the first network device. The system may further include an energy source component configured to provide power to the first network device, wherein the second network device is configured to receive data from the first network device and provide the data to one or more client devices located within the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Dong Kim, Adrian Napoles, Ulf Jan-Ove Mattsson
  • Patent number: 10446903
    Abstract: Surface scattering antennas on curved manifolds provide adjustable radiation fields by adjustably coupling scattering elements along a wave-propagating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLC
    Inventors: Eric J. Black, Pai-Yen Chen, Brian Mark Deutsch, Tom Driscoll, Siamak Ebadi, John Desmond Hunt, Alexander Remley Katko, Nathan Ingle Landy, Melroy Machado, Milton Perque, Jr., David R. Smith, Yaroslav A. Urzhumov
  • Patent number: 10446926
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station antenna, including power dividers, network calibration modules, and connectors. The base station antenna further includes at least two phase shifters. At least one phase shifter is integrated with a combiner, the connectors are connected to the network calibration modules, and the network calibration modules are connected to the phase shifters. The one phase shifter integrated with the combiner is connected to the power divider, and at least one output port of the at least one other phase shifter is connected to the phase shifter integrated with the combiner. The base station antenna has an integrated design of phase shifters and combiners, which allows cables in different bands to be shared, reduces a quantity of used cables, is easy to implement in an actual layout and production, facilitates the layout and heat dissipation on the whole, satisfies user requirements, and reduces costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weihong Xiao, Zhiqiang Liao, Wei Su
  • Patent number: 10418714
    Abstract: In an electronic switching beamforming antenna array, a coplanar feeding line of the antenna array is configured on a metal plane of a substrate, and a plurality of slot antennas of aforementioned antenna array are inclinedly configured on the metal plane and configured on at least one side of the coplanar feeding line. A slot coupling segment of slot antenna is configured at one end of the slot antenna and neighbored with the coplanar feeding line so as to make the slot antenna couple with the coplanar feeding line, and a switch device of the slot antenna is configured at one portion which between one part of the slot antenna and a grounding plane formed by the metal plane. When the switch device is triggered to configure a radiating feature of the slot antenna, the antenna array is able to achieve the purpose of setting beamforming direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Jiao Liao, Yan-Yun Lin, Chang-Fa Yang, Chang-Lun Liao