Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directive beamforming antenna
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Application No.: US17297040Application Date: 2019-11-22
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Publication No.: US11870149B2Publication Date: 2024-01-09
- Inventor: Gerard James Hayes , Koichiro Takamizawa , James O. Legvold , Elbert Stanford Eskridge, Jr. , Mike Barts , John Swartz
- Applicant: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
- Applicant Address: US NC Morrisville
- Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
- Current Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Morrisville
- Agency: Burr & Forman LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2019/062799 2019.11.22
- International Announcement: WO2020/112543A 2020.06.04
- Date entered country: 2021-05-26
- Main IPC: H01Q21/20
- IPC: H01Q21/20 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q1/28 ; H01Q3/36

Abstract:
An antenna assembly includes a plurality of antenna elements disposed in a circular pattern and equidistant from each other in angular separation relative to a common reference point at a center of the circular pattern. The antenna assembly may include or be operably coupled to a phase control module configured to apply selected phase fronts to each of the antenna elements to generate constructive and destructive interference patterns to define a directive beam in a desired direction. The selected phase fronts may include no phase adjustment, a positive phase adjustment value and a negative phase adjustment value, the positive and negative phase adjustment values each having a same magnitude.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220029307A1 Directive Beamforming Antenna Public/Granted day:2022-01-27
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