US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Nov. 18 for "System for scalable adaptive digital beamforming in a phased antenna-array" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,659, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System for scalable adaptive digital beamforming in a phased antenna-array" was invented by Benjamin Peiffer (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Jeremiah D. Wolf (Atkins, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio system is used for adaptive digital beamforming in a phased antenna-array. The radio system scales with large numbers of antenna elements in a phased array. The radio system uses a distributed computing method that is inherently scalable with large numbers of the antenna elements. The radio system includes a digital beamformer. The digital beamformer...