PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16316711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "296000"]

Abstract:
The present invention describes a phased array transmitter and a method for beamforming. The phased array transmitter comprises a plurality of transmitting branches configured for up-converting an IF signal to an RF signal with a desired RF phase shift. Each transmitting branch is configured for phase shifting the IF signal with a first phase shift and the LO signal with a second phase shift such that the combined first and second phase shift is the desired RF phase shift of the transmitting branch.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for beamforming in a phased array transmitter, the method comprising:\n splitting an IF signal into a plurality of input IF signals and feeding each of the plurality of input IF signals to a corresponding transmitting branch; phase-shifting and up-converting, for each transmitting branch, the input IF signal to an RF signal with a desired RF phase shift; and transmitting, for each transmitting branch, the RF signal by feeding the RF signal to an antenna element; and wherein phase-shifting, for each transmitting branch, comprises phase-shifting the input IF signal with an IF phase shift to obtain a phase shifted IF signal, and phase-shifting the LO signal with an LO phase shift to obtain a phase shifted LO signal, wherein the choice of the IF phase shift and the LO phase shift is determined such that the combined IF and LO phase shift is the desired RF phase shift of each transmitting branch; and wherein up-converting, for each transmitting branch, comprises mixing the phase shifted IF signal and the phased shifted LO signal to obtain the RF signal with the desired RF phase shift.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14046798', '12503761', '09796824', '12014461', '11778419']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5870004192607008
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953945595300041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5778398332876311
- Mean Citation Score: 248.40509
- Max Citation Score: 263.75766
- Similarity Product: 192.2939161019254

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test