US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on June 30 for "Integrated AESA/radar in-situ calibration IP disclosure" (Florida, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,578, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Integrated AESA/radar in-situ calibration IP disclosure" was invented by Jacob G. Teague (West Melbourne, Fla.), James B. West (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Mark Fersdahl (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Connor C. McBryde (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Yoel H. Sonera (Palm Bay, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for insitu AESA calibration includes a radar receiver/excitor (XR). The calibrated XR functions as a precision multi-channel relative amplitude and phase microwave frequency measurement device that executes a known AESA calibration methodology. An integrate...