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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2022
Bae Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., Broomfield, CO (US);
Mark C. Leifer, Boulder, CO (US);
Stanton B. Mcmillan, Louisville, CO (US);
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
Systems and method for placing nulls at desired locations within a beam pattern of a phased array antenna are provided. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a weight vector solution for controlling operating parameters of the M elements of the array antenna such that a beam pattern incorporating one or more desired nulls is obtained by performing operations on an N×N matrix, where N is equal to a number of vectors used to describe the nulls. The nulls can be placed at arbitrary locations within the beam pattern, and can be formed with arbitrary depths.