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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abhishek Tiwari, Oak Park, CA (US);
Steven Andrew Cashion, Mountain View, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for pointing wireless communication antennas may include (1) a mount that secures (A) a wireless communication antenna that transmits wireless communication signals to a remote wireless communication antenna that is secured on a remote mount and (B) an array of pointing antennas that receives, from a remote array of pointing antennas mounted on the remote mount, a beacon signal that indicates a location of the remote array of pointing antennas, (3) a motorized drive that physically orients the mount, and (4) a processing device that (A) determines, based at least in part on the beacon signal, an orientation of a boresight axis of the wireless communication antenna relative to a boresight axis of the remote wireless communication antenna and (B) directs the motorized drive to orient the mount such that the wireless communication antenna's boresight axis aligns with the remote wireless communication antenna's boresight axis.