G01S 3/06
Means for increasing effective directivity
Official title: Means for increasing effective directivity, e.g. by combining signals having differently oriented directivity characteristics or by sharpening the envelope waveform of the signal derived from a rotating or oscillating beam antenna (comparing amplitude of signals having differently oriented directivity characteristics to determine direction G01S3/16, G01S3/28)
G01S3/06 (Means for increasing effective directivity) appears on 74 US grants and 47 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Beam alignment method and related device14 Apr 2026US 12,601,808 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for determination of direction of arrival angle17 Mar 2026US 12,578,450 B2NXP B. V.
- Method and apparatus for determination of direction of arrival angle30 Dec 2025US 12,510,618 B2NXP B. V.
- Systems and methods for determining interfering GNSS signal source and providing evasive maneuver guidance for evacuating the affected region25 Nov 2025US 12,481,070 B2Honeywell International Inc.
- Deterministic low-complexity beam alignment for 5G and 6G users11 Feb 2025US 12,222,429 B2
- Compressive sensing correlation interferometer direction finding6 Nov 2025US 2025/0341604 A1BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- Direction finding system and antenna array14 Nov 2024US 2024/0377494 A1Alaris Antennas (Pty) Limited
- Multi-channel active array system and method for obtaining positional information of an object15 Aug 2024US 2024/0272261 A1Saab AB
- Beam Alignment Method and Related Device11 Jul 2024US 2024/0230816 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for determining interfering gnss signal source and providing evasive maneuver guidance for evacuating the affected region20 Jun 2024US 2024/0201394 A1Honeywell International Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for determining angles-of-arrival and polarization of incoming RF signals249US 5,936,575 AScience and Applied Technology, Inc. · 1999
- Algorithm for selectively suppressing NLOS signals in location estimation100US 6,456,956 B1Verizon Laboratories Inc. · 2002
- Millimeter wave imaging sensors, sources and systems93US 5,202,692 AMillitech Corporation · 1993
- Multiple intermediate frequency side-lobe canceller77US 4,044,359 AGeneral Electric Company · 1977
- Method and apparatus for robust estimation of directions of arrival for antenna arrays62US 6,075,484 AMotorola, Inc. · 2000