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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2020
Applicants:
Rimon Hokayem, Miami, FL (US);
Elias Alwan, Miami, FL (US);
John L. Volakis, Miami, FL (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
The Florida International University Board of Trustees, Miami, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 21/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H03D 7/16 (2006.01); H04L 27/152 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H01Q 21/00 (2013.01); H03D 7/163 (2013.01); H04L 27/152 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for beamforming using a cross-mixing architecture are provided. A beamformer can use an element-to-element mixing concept and can avoid the use of conventional bulky analog phase shifters. Incident signals can be sent through a phase-locked loop and then mixed with a signal from an antenna element oppositely spaced about a phase center of the antenna element array. Beamformers can be integrated into existing hybrid structures by substituting the traditional analog part of the beamforming process.