PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "067120"]

Abstract:
Methods and Systems for testing phased antenna arrays include positioning a phased antenna array and a probe antenna at relative positions with respect to each other where one of them can operate as the transmitter and the other as the receiver. The transmitter can radiate a plurality of electromagnetic waves sequentially while the phased antenna array is steered or configured differently for each radiated electromagnetic. The receiver can receive, responsive to each radiated electromagnetic wave, a corresponding receive radio frequency (RF) signal. A processor can determine one or more performance parameters of the phased antenna array using the receive RF signals.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of testing phased antenna arrays, the method comprising:\n positioning a phased antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements and a probe antenna at relative positions with respect to each other, either the phased antenna array acting as a transmitting antenna and the probe antenna acting as a receiving antenna, or the probe antenna acting as the transmitting antenna and the phased antenna array acting as the receiving antenna; causing the transmitting antenna to radiate a plurality of electromagnetic waves sequentially, the plurality of electromagnetic waves corresponding to a single transmit signal; causing the phased antenna array to operate, during transmission of each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves according to a corresponding configuration scheme of a plurality of distinct configuration schemes, the corresponding configuration scheme defining at least one of a respective set of antenna elements that are active during the transmission of the electromagnetic wave or a respective set of phase shifts or time delays that are applied to the plurality of antenna elements during the transmission of the electromagnetic wave; receiving, by the receiving antenna, responsive to each radiated electromagnetic wave, a corresponding receive radio frequency (RF) signal; determining, for each antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements, corresponding amplitude and phase parameters using the receive RF signals corresponding to the plurality of electromagnetic waves, each of the receive RF signals representing a corresponding linear combination of the single transmit signal; and determining one or more performance parameters of the phased antenna array using the determined amplitude and phase parameters for the plurality of antenna elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70312
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13795544', '13721897', '15222192', '15356172', '11525757']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.698307317155572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872961856041287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6772062040004277
- Mean Citation Score: 216.670144
- Max Citation Score: 232.19823
- Similarity Product: 178.85646318016288

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test