US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Sept. 16 for "High speed, extensible and self-healing data network for AESA RFIC arrays" (Florida, Arkansas, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,203, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"High speed, extensible and self-healing data network for AESA RFIC arrays" was invented by Yoel H. Sonera (Palm Bay, Fla.), James B. West (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Jacob G. Teague (West Melbourne, Fla.) and James P. Meinecke (Fayetteville, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AESA may include a point-to-point serial interface between RFIC that implements positional addressing and is extensible to an unlimited amount of RFIC. A controller of the AESA may access registers of one or more RFIC and sends control and synchronization signals using a low-lat...