US Patent Issued to VIASAT on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for calibrating phased array antennas" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,628, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for calibrating phased array antennas" was invented by Daniel Llorens Del Rio (Lausanne, Switzerland), Manuel Fajardo (Gland, Switzerland), Martin Gimersky (Morges, Switzerland), Alessandro Valentino Matheoud (Saint Sulpice, Switzerland) and Alexander Butler (Ulverston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna system having an antenna array including at least first and second phased array antennas, and a method for field-calibrating the antenna array. Before and after a handover period, communication with respective first and s...