US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 29 for "RX and TX coherence in radar antenna using near field antenna" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,613, issued on July 29, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"RX and TX coherence in radar antenna using near field antenna" was invented by Jack J. Schuss (Newton, Mass.) and Joseph E. Hilliard Jr. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system of calibrating and cohering at least one radar antenna in receive (RX) mode and transmit (TX) mode, comprising performing RX mode calibration on at least one radar antenna using radio frequency (RF) far field calibration source, determining RF phase ORXn using RF far field calibration source for each at least one radar antenna, operating at least one radar anten...