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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2021
Viasat, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Kenneth V. Buer, Bluff City, TN (US);
Viasat, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A beamforming method () and apparatus () disclosed herein use an advantageous approach to beamforming involving the application of beamforming weights () that define respective beams () of a beam group () as spatially non-overlapping and having fixed spatial relationships within the beam group (), and the application of beam-group steering weights () that steer the respective beams () of the beam group () in a common direction. The arrangement allows, for example, limiting the beamforming structure of the beamformer () to that needed for defining the beam group (), with beam-group steering then used to point the beam group () in various directions to provide greater signal coverage over time.