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- Patent Title: Wideband adaptive beamforming methods and systems
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Application No.: US14864386Application Date: 2015-09-24
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Publication No.: US10177451B1Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Mara S. Baraban , Jacob A. Sauer , Mark Curtis Leifer , Stanton B. McMillan
- Applicant: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
- Applicant Address: US CO Boulder
- Assignee: BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
- Current Assignee: BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Boulder
- Agency: Sheridan Ross P.C.
- Main IPC: G01S3/28
- IPC: G01S3/28 ; H01Q3/26 ; H01Q1/38 ; G01S7/28 ; G01S19/21

Abstract:
Wide band adaptive beam forming methods and systems are provided. The beam forming methods can include receiving signals at multiple antenna elements and digitizing samples of the received signals for some period of time. The samples are divided into sub-channels according to frequency, and interferers are identified as signals appearing across at least some minimum number of the sub-channels. After removing signals not identified as interferers from the collected signal information, that information is used to calculate weights for forming a beam having a null at the identified location of the interferer. The beam forming systems include multiple element antennas having arms in the form of a spiral, and processing hardware for performing adaptive beam forming.
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