US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Feb. 17 for "Hybrid clutter suppression using electronically scanned antennas" (Iowa, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,990, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Hybrid clutter suppression using electronically scanned antennas" was invented by Venkata A. Sishtla (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Xingming Wang (Marion, Iowa), James B. West (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Jacob G. Teague (West Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for distinguishing targets of interest from main lobe clutter and sidelobe clutter includes an ESA or AESA divided into subarrays. A sum beam power profile is produced via one or more scans of the subarrays, and a difference beam power profile is produced via calculations in...