US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Distributed calculation of beamforming parameters for phased arrays" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,321, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Distributed calculation of beamforming parameters for phased arrays" was invented by Arun Paidimarri (White Plains, N.Y.), Mark Yeck (Bloomingdale, N.J.), Bodhisatwa Sadhu (Peekskill, N.Y.) and Alberto Valdes Garcia (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a phased array are described. In an example, a system may convert a desired beam direction of a desired beam into at least one phase slope parameter. The phased array may include a plurality of antennas connected to a plurality of front-end circuits ...