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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2022
David E. Newman, Poway, CA (US);
R. Kemp Massengill, Palos Verdes, CA (US);
David E. Newman, Poway, CA (US);
R. Kemp Massengill, Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Ultralogic 6G, LLC, Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Abstract
Procedures are disclosed to enable a wireless device to determine its alignment direction toward a base station or another device in 5G or 6G, using a 'phased beam-alignment pulse', which is a transmitted pulse having phase modulation that varies with angle. For example, the pulse may be transmitted spanning 360 degrees of angle, and may be phase modulated varying from 0 to 360 degrees of phase in the same angular range. A user device can receive the phased beam-alignment pulse and immediately determine, from the phase, the alignment angle toward the transmitter. In another embodiment, the transmitter transmits a uniform, non-directional pulse, and the receiver receives it using an antenna configured to impose an angle-dependent phase shift, thereby indicating the alignment direction. With either method, wireless entities can align their beams rapidly and efficiently, using just one or two resource elements, without complex encoding or time-consuming handshaking.