US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Configurable beamformer integrated circuit control" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,741, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Configurable beamformer integrated circuit control" was invented by Arun Paidimarri (South Salem, N.Y.), Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Peekskill, N.Y.), Mark Yeck (Bloomingdale, N.J.) and Alberto Valdes Garcia (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamformer circuit comprises a front end subcircuit. The front-end subcircuit comprises a phase control structure and a gain control structure. The beamformer circuit also comprises a first area in memory that is dedicated to storing settings for the phase control structure. The beamformer circu...