US 11,811,476 B2
Channel aggregation digital beamforming
Alireza Mehrnia, Tustin, CA (US); Masoud Kahrizi, Irvine, CA (US); Ka Shun Carson Pun, Irvine, CA (US); Omid Nasiby, Laguna Niguel, CA (US); and Alex Ahmad Mirzaei, Tustin, CA (US)
Assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US)
Filed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/941,863.
Application 17/941,863 is a continuation of application No. 17/187,607, filed on Feb. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,469,802.
Application 17/187,607 is a continuation of application No. 16/865,400, filed on May 3, 2020, granted, now 10,938,465, issued on Mar. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/847,749, filed on May 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0008670 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/0617 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0837 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a digital beamforming section configured to:
encode each data beam of a first plurality of data beams of a first channel with a first plurality of respective time delays and phases to generate an encoded first plurality of data beams; and
encode each data beam of a second plurality of data beams of a second channel with a second plurality of respective time delays and phases to generate an encoded second plurality of data beams, wherein the second plurality of data beams is different from the first plurality of data beams; and
a channel combiner, electrically coupled to the digital beamforming section, and configured to generate a combined channel comprising an aggregation of at least a portion of the encoded first plurality of data beams and at least a portion of the encoded second plurality of data beams.