US Patent Issued to Panasonic Avionics on Jan. 27 for "Thermal load balancing for electronically steerable antennas" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,298, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Thermal load balancing for electronically steerable antennas" was invented by Anh Nguyen (Fullerton, Calif.) and Larry Glick (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to optimizing operation of an electronically steerable antenna (ESA) with respect to temperature-related constraints. Thermal load experienced by individual antenna elements or tiles of the ESA is balanced to maximize an expected time before the ESA reaches a shutdown temperature. An example method includes determining a reduced number o...