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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.

Patent No.:

US 10634764 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2015

Beacon and associated components for a ranging system

Applicant:

Corvus Technologies Corp, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Glen Var Rosenbaum, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Gordon J. Laughlin, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Don Doerres, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Jae Heiner, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Assignee:

CORVUS TECHNOLOGIES CORP, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Attorney:

Thorpe North & Western, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Harry K Liu

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/14 (2006.01); G01S 13/87 (2006.01); G01S 13/88 (2006.01); G01S 7/292 (2006.01); G01S 7/41 (2006.01); G01S 13/42 (2006.01); G01S 7/02 (2006.01); G01S 13/76 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 11/04 (2006.01); G01S 13/02 (2006.01); G01S 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/46 (2006.01); G01S 7/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/89 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/14 (2013.01); G01S 5/0273 (2013.01); G01S 5/0284 (2013.01); G01S 7/026 (2013.01); G01S 7/2925 (2013.01); G01S 7/415 (2013.01); G01S 11/04 (2013.01); G01S 13/426 (2013.01); G01S 13/762 (2013.01); G01S 13/765 (2013.01); G01S 13/878 (2013.01); G01S 13/888 (2013.01); G01S 7/003 (2013.01); G01S 13/003 (2013.01); G01S 13/89 (2013.01); G01S 2013/0245 (2013.01); G01S 2013/466 (2013.01); G01S 2013/468 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A beacon () for a ranging system includes an electronic scanned array (ESA) antenna and a transceiver. The ESA antenna is configured to emit a separate radio frequency (RF) phased-array narrow beam () for each of a plurality of segments of an arc, and receive from an end user node () a response signal based on at least one of the RF phased-array narrow beam (). Each segment of the arc is scanned at a specified time interval. The transceiver is configured to transmit a pulsed signal via the RF phased-array narrow beam (), and receive the response signal.

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