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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2017
Applicant:

Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Columbus, OH (US);

Inventors:

Markus H. Novak, Columbus, OH (US);

Satheesh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Columbus, OH (US);

John L. Volakis, Columbus, OH (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04L 27/14 (2006.01); H01Q 3/42 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/14 (2013.01); H01Q 3/42 (2013.01); H04B 1/38 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/084 (2013.01); H04B 7/0837 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example systems and methods described herein relate to radio communication architectures and techniques for beamforming and down-conversion without a priori knowledge of the source location or frequency. An example radio receiver includes a plurality of antenna elements that include a first element, a second element, and a third element. The radio receiver also includes a plurality of mixers coupled to the plurality of antenna elements and a combiner coupled to the plurality of antenna elements. A signal incident on the first element is mixed with itself via a first mixer of the plurality of mixers. An output of the first mixer is mixed with a signal incident on the second element via a second mixer of the plurality of mixers, and an output of the second mixer is combined via the combiner with a signal incident on the third element.


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