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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
James E. Bevington, Plymouth, MN (US);
Assignee:
General Dynamics Information Systems, Inc., Bloomington, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/22 ; H01Q 3/24 ; H01Q 3/26 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/22 ; H01Q 3/24 ; H01Q 3/26 ;
Abstract
A system and method for beamforming signals received in sparse, irregular sensor arrays has a network of sensors organized into sensor clusters, a signal processing node for each sensor cluster for beamforming the signals received by the sensors in each sensor cluster and an aggregation node for combining the beamformed responses from each sensor cluster to form a composite response characterized by minimized side lobes and grating lobes.