Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, system, and method for pointing wireless communication antennas
-
Application No.: US15796585Application Date: 2017-10-27
-
Publication No.: US10734700B2Publication Date: 2020-08-04
- Inventor: Abhishek Tiwari , Steven Andrew Cashion
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: H01Q1/12
- IPC: H01Q1/12 ; H01Q3/08 ; G01S13/44 ; H01Q1/24

Abstract:
An apparatus for pointing wireless communication antennas may include (1) a mount that secures (A) a wireless communication antenna that transmits wireless communication signals to a remote wireless communication antenna that is secured on a remote mount and (B) an array of pointing antennas that receives, from a remote array of pointing antennas mounted on the remote mount, a beacon signal that indicates a location of the remote array of pointing antennas, (3) a motorized drive that physically orients the mount, and (4) a processing device that (A) determines, based at least in part on the beacon signal, an orientation of a boresight axis of the wireless communication antenna relative to a boresight axis of the remote wireless communication antenna and (B) directs the motorized drive to orient the mount such that the wireless communication antenna's boresight axis aligns with the remote wireless communication antenna's boresight axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190131686A1 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR POINTING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ANTENNAS Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
Information query