US 11,947,000 B2
Compact radar system
Adam Eugene Robertson, Provo, UT (US); Jon Erik Knabenschuh, Orem, UT (US); Lyman Davies Horne, South Jordan, UT (US); Tyler Drue Park, Springville, UT (US); Matthew Robertson Morin, Orem, UT (US); James David Mackie, Provo, UT (US); Matthew Elliott Argyle, Lindon, UT (US); Bryan Alan Davis, Salt Lake City, UT (US); Chester Parker Ferry, Pleasant Grove, UT (US); Daniel Glen Bezzant, Alpine, UT (US); Justin Craig Huntington, Provo, UT (US); and Nathan James Packard, Provo, UT (US)
Assigned to FORTEM TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Pleasant Grove, UT (US)
Filed by Fortem Technologies, Inc., Pleasant Grove, UT (US)
Filed on Jun. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/833,081.
Application 17/833,081 is a continuation of application No. 16/129,136, filed on Sep. 12, 2018, granted, now 11,353,575.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/557,726, filed on Sep. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0317282 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G01S 13/87 (2006.01); G01S 7/28 (2006.01); G01S 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/04 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 13/872 (2013.01) [G01S 7/2813 (2013.01); G01S 13/003 (2013.01); G01S 13/04 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
deploying a radar system configured to detect one or more objects within a distance of the radar system, the radar system comprising one or more processors, a first set of transmit antennas and a second set of receive antennas, the one or more processors being configured to coordinate (a) digital beam steering of the first set of transmit antennas and the second set of receive antennas and (b) digital beam forming at the first set of transmit antennas and the second set of receive antennas to detect the one or more objects;
sending, using at least one of the first set of transmit antennas, one or more electromagnetic signals;
receiving, using at least one of the second set of receive antennas, one or more returned electromagnetic signals, wherein the one or more returned electromagnetic signals are isolated from the one or more electromagnetic signals by one or more electromagnetic signal isolation structures configured between the first set of transmit antennas and the second set of receive antennas; and
based on the one or more returned electromagnetic signals, detecting, using the one or more processors, an object within the distance of the radar system.