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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Impinj, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Impinj, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/24 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/24 (2013.01); H01Q 21/061 (2013.01);
Abstract
A synthesized-beam transceiver system steers a beam of a two-dimensional antenna array by activating a first subset of antenna elements to orient the beam in a first direction and subsequently activating a second subset of the antenna elements to orient the beam in a different direction. The system also electrically connects antenna elements that are inactive, not in the first subset, or not in the second subset to a reference potential of the array.