US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 21 for "Techniques for calculating the array factor of a phased array antenna" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,429, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for calculating the array factor of a phased array antenna" was invented by Niki Amini-Naieni (Medina, Wash.), Alireza Mahanfar (Kirkland, Wash.) and Peter James Hetzel (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies directed to calculating an array factor for a phased array antenna are described. One wireless device with a phased array antenna receives inputs and defines a first variable in a first coordinate space and defines a set of amplitudes of a one-dimensional or two-dimensional inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT). Each amplitude is...