ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,924, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cesium Astro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Antenna system architecture with calibration feedback routing for per element calibration with digital beamformer" was invented by Tanim Taher (Round Rock, Texas), Thomas Magesacher (Austin, Texas) and James Wesley McCoy (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include multiple digital beamformer (DBF) circuits coupled to an analog front end that includes an antenna array. Each DBF circuit is coupled to a subset of the antenna elements of the array. Each DBF may be configured to adjust coefficients of complex multipliers to selectively en...