ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,176, issued on June 2, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for beam-group steering" was invented by Kenneth V. Buer (Bluff City, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beamforming method (700) and apparatus (10) disclosed herein use an advantageous approach to beamforming involving the application of beamforming weights (24) that define respective beams (72) of a beam group (70) as spatially non-overlapping and having fixed spatial relationships within the beam group (70), and the application of beam-group steering weights (28) that steer the respective beams (72) of the beam group (70) in a common di...