ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,078, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SatixFy UK Ltd. (Farnborough, Great Britain).
"Digital beam forming" was invented by Doron Rainish (Farnborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital beamforming circuit that includes a plurality of channels, each having an input port configured to receive a digital input signal and an output port configured to feed an antenna element with an analog signal, wherein the plurality of channels forms an electronically steerable antenna (ESA). Each channel includes: a comparator configured to compare the digital input signal with one of a plurality of thresholds that linearly spa...