ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,286, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Beam management using sparse antenna arrays" was invented by Brian G. Greinke (Carlsbad, Calif.), John Bacigalupi (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Parker Robinson (Ocala, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices communications are described. A terminal may be identified with a geographic region. First beam coefficients may be determined for an antenna array having interelement spacing of antennas that is different across the antenna array. The first beam coefficients may be used to form a first beam for the terminal, where a coverage area of the ...