ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,264, issued on Feb. 10.
"Method and system for calibrating antennas with application to solar power satellites" was invented by Chester Richards (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention employs a novel method of phase calibrating a very large distributed antenna. The calibration technique makes possible a new, and more practical, architecture for Solar Power Satellites. Most previous solar power satellite concepts involve the construction of unified multi-kilometer sized structures. With this invention, rather than a large unified structure, the invention may employ a collection of small free flying satell...