US 11,943,015 B2
Communications system
Jan-Peter Schat, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Oct. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/449,759.
Claims priority of application No. 20204972 (EP), filed on Oct. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0140867 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01)
CPC H04B 7/0452 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0682 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communications system comprising:
an antenna that comprises a plurality of serially connected sub-antenna elements; and
a signal generator configured to provide a transmission signal to the antenna for propagating along the sub-antenna elements, wherein the transmission signal comprises a plurality of serial symbol packets, and wherein the signal generator is configured to set the phase of the serial symbol packets such that when they align with predefined ones of the sub-antenna elements the antenna provides a beamformed signal.