Patent ID: 11916631
Assignee: VIASAT INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. The multi-beam phased array antenna system of claim 1, wherein the determined two or more beams comprises at least four determined beams, the system further comprising:
a transmit antenna comprising a first subset of subarrays and a second subset of subarrays of the disjoint subsets of subarrays; and
a receive antenna comprising a third subset of subarrays and a fourth subset of subarrays of the disjoint subsets of the subarrays;
wherein the controller is further configured to assign the first subset of subarrays to transmit a first beam of the at least four determined beams, assigns the second subset of subarrays to transmit a second beam of the at least four determined beams, assign the third subset of subarrays to receive a third beam of the at least four determined beams, and assign the fourth subset of subarrays to receive a fourth beam of the at least four determined beams.