ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,670, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Digital phased array" was invented by Benjamin Jann (Portland, Ore.), Ashoke Ravi (Portland, Ore.) and Paolo Madoglio (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device includes an antenna array with multiple antenna elements, an array of power amplifiers, and an array of phase shifters. Each antenna element is coupled to a power amplifier and a phase shifter. The device also includes transmitter circuitry coupled to the antenna array to encode a constant amplitude signal, which includes a power amplifier enable code to indicate...