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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2019
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
Gary A. Ray, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H01Q 3/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H01Q 3/30 (2013.01); H04B 7/0619 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for rapidly finding detectable signals within the field-of-view of a phased array antenna. The transmit beam pattern is modified over time to increase signal spatial search performance over typical time-delay steering by producing a coarse-to-fine angular beam pattern with a tree-based approach to signal detection. A tree-based beam search is employed to select a beam having a narrower beamwidth for transmission at an angle from boresight that lies in an angular space where a signal has been previously detected.