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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Seakr Engineering, Inc., Centennial, CO (US);
Inventor:
Damon Van Buren, Parker, CO (US);
Assignee:
SEAKR ENGINEERING, INC., Centennial, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/0408 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 1/0028 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01); H04B 7/185 (2013.01); H04B 7/0408 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hybrid system of satellite-based beamforming that includes digitally beamforming in one axis and physically beamforming in an orthogonal axis. Based on the orientation of the satellite, the digital beamforming axis may be the in-track axis, the cross-track axis, or anywhere in between those two axes. In the digitally beamformed axis, the beam pattern can be steered to different positions along the axis and it can be compressed or expanded, as desired.