US Patent Issued to General Radar on Dec. 23 for "Compact analog beamformers and microwave radar systems containing the same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,274, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to General Radar Corp. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Compact analog beamformers and microwave radar systems containing the same" was invented by Jon Williams (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microwave radar systems using compact form factor devices are described. Examples of such devices include a "folded" beamformer. The beamformer includes: a linear array of microwave antennas; a principal plane including: a Rotman lens; a first set of coplanar microwave waveguides; and a second set of coplanar microwave waveguides; and a series of one or more first planes parallel to the principal, each firs...