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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2017
Searete Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yaroslav A. Urzhumov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew S. Reynolds, Seattle, WA (US);
Guy S. Lipworth, Seattle, WA (US);
Russell J. Hannigan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Arnitz, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph Hagerty, Seattle, WA (US);
The Invention Science Fund I, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a source device includes one or more tunable elements associated with an antenna. The source device is operable to modulate an impedance of one or more tunable elements based on a sequence of tuning vectors, measure a reference signal amplitude for each tuning vector, and determine field amplitudes for an array of reference points that circumscribe at least a portion of the source device based on the reference signal amplitude for each tuning vector. The source device is further operable to determine a target tuning vector that defines a target radiation pattern based on the field amplitudes, and transmit a target signal to a target device based on the target radiation pattern.