US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 21 for "Time delay calibrator and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,359, issued on July 21, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Time delay calibrator and method" was invented by Paul T. Hartin (McKinney, Texas), Richard Godley (McKinney, Texas) and Jacob A. Hanson-Daisa (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a shaped gate signal using a gate voltage generator and providing the shaped gate signal to a gate of an active component of a radio frequency (RF) chain in a time delay-based array. The method also includes amplifying noise with a changing gain based on the shaped gate signal using the active component and generating shaped noise data based on the ...