Channel extraction digital beamforming

US10944442B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Space Exploration Technologies Corp. · US

Inventors

• Alireza Mehrnia · Los Angeles, US
• Masoud Kahrizi · Irvine, US
• Alex Ahmad Mirzaei · Irvine, US
• Bagher Afshar · Irvine, US
• Ali Sajjadi · Irvine, US
• Bernd Pregardier · Oceanside, US
• Ka Shun Carson Pun · Irvine, US
• Omid Nasiby · Laguna Niguel, US
• Igor Elgorriaga · Rancho Palos Verdes, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 2020
• Grant date: Mar 9, 2021
• Expiry date: May 3, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L7/0033
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In an embodiment, a receiver included in a communications system includes a channel extractor configured to segregate a received signal into a plurality of channel signals, wherein the plurality of channel signals includes a plurality of data signals; a plurality of phase shifters electrically coupled to the channel extractor and configured to decode each data signal of the plurality of data signals with a respective phase; and a plurality of time delay filters electrically coupled to the plurality of phase shifters and configured to decode each data signal of the plurality of data signals with a respective time delay, wherein the plurality of time delay filters outputs each subset of the plurality of data signals in a respective channel of the plurality of channels.