- Patent Title: Systems and methods for beamforming in hybrid beamforming antennas
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Application No.: US18197597Application Date: 2023-05-15
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Publication No.: US12136977B2Publication Date: 2024-11-05
- Inventor: Eric Pepin , Kim W. Schulze , Amir Agah , Dean A. De Carli , Philippe Riondet
- 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 PC
- Main IPC: H04B7/06
- IPC: H04B7/06 ; H04B17/11

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for hybrid beamforming. An example method can include determining a plurality of digital beamforming weights associated with a plurality of digital beamforming paths between digital beamformers and groups of analog beamforming circuits in a phased array antenna, each digital beamforming path being coupled to a group of analog beamforming circuits and each analog beamforming circuit being coupled to a respective set of antenna elements of the phased array antenna, and determining analog beamforming weights associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits. The analog beamforming weights are estimated to put analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits in a desired phase and gain relationship with each other. The method can include varying, based at least partly on the analog beamforming weights, a signal phase shift across the analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230283338A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAMFORMING IN HYBRID BEAMFORMING ANTENNAS Public/Granted day:2023-09-07
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