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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2024
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Duke Buckner, Panama City Beach, FL (US);
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus that includes a beamforming antenna is provided. The apparatus may include a predictive calculator processing unit to receive position information of one or more airborne receivers, determine future position information of the one or more airborne receivers as a function of time based on the received position information, and determine beamforming antenna parameters. The apparatus may include an antenna instruction processing unit to receive the beamforming antenna parameters and generate beamforming instructions based on the beamforming antenna parameters, a beamforming antenna to receive the beamforming instructions, and to generate a beam at a specified time based on the beamforming instructions to enable communication with at least one of the one or more airborne receivers, and a receiver processing unit to receive airborne receiver data from the at least one of the one or more airborne receivers, and generate output data based on the airborne receiver data.