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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Zachary T. Miers, Broomfield, CO (US);
Ryan Jennings, Broomfield, CO (US);
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
Phased array antenna systems and methods for operating phased array antenna systems to efficiently generate multiple beams from a single phased array aperture are disclosed. Elements included in a phased array antenna are randomly assigned to generate one of first or second beams. A phase index for the first set of elements is iterated n times, and a total difference in phase amounts for neighboring elements belonging to different ones of the first and second sets is calculated for each of the n iterations. The phase index resulting in the smallest calculated difference is applied to generate the first beam. The first and second beams are generated from the single phased array aperture simultaneously.