US Patent Issued to European Space Agency on May 20 for "Reconfigurable digital beamforming network" (British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,915, issued on May 20, was assigned to European Space Agency (Paris).

"Reconfigurable digital beamforming network" was invented by Piero Angeletti (Noordwijk, Netherlands), Adem Coskun (Essex, Great Britain) and Izzet Kale (Mitcham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transforming input signals received at N input signal ports to output signals for output at M output signal ports includes generating, from the input signals, first intermediate signals for processing by a fast Fourier transform (FFT), with a predefined number of input ports and output ports corresponding to a size of the FFT; applying the FFT to th...