Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Channel aggregation digital beamforming
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Application No.: US16865400Application Date: 2020-05-03
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Publication No.: US10938465B1Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Alireza Mehrnia , Masoud Kahrizi , Ka Shun Carson Pun , Omid Nasiby , Alex Ahmad Mirzaei
- Applicant: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Applicant Address: US CA Hawthorne
- Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Current Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Hawthorne
- Agency: Polsinelli P.C.
- Main IPC: H04B7/02
- IPC: H04B7/02 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W72/04 ; H04B7/08

Abstract:
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first plurality of digital beamformers associated with a first channel; a second plurality of digital beamformers associated with a second channel different from the first channel; a channel combiner, electrically coupled to the first and second plurality of digital beamformers, and configured to generate a combined channel comprising an aggregation of the encoded first plurality of data beams and the encoded second plurality of data beams, wherein the combined channel has a bandwidth that is a function of a bandwidth of one or both of the first or second channel; and a radio frequency (RF) transmission section, electrically coupled to the channel combiner, and configured to generate an output signal to be provided to a transmitting antenna based on the combined channel, wherein the RF transmission section includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a mixer.
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