US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Sept. 8 for "Combined radio altimeter and doppler radar with surface-mountable antenna array and loop-back calibration" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,285, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Combined radio altimeter and doppler radar with surface-mountable antenna array and loop-back calibration" was invented by Timothy Allen Murphy (Marysville, Wash.), Rongsheng Li (Menifee, Calif.) and Alireza Shapoury (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio device includes a radio frequency (RF) unit and a surface-mountable antenna module coupled to the RF unit via an electrical connector. The RF unit includes first transmit circuitry, first receive circuitry, and a processing unit, and the surface-mountable antenna module includes a housin...