ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,309, issued on June 30, was assigned to BAE Systems plc (London).
"Laser designator pods (LDP)" was invented by Ben Anthony Murphy (Preston, Great Britain) and Adrian Duncan Lees (Preston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Laser Designator Pod (LDP) protective system, the LDP protective system comprising: a protective hood a laser detector arranged within the protective hood to generate a signal when exposed to laser radiation within a predefined range of wavelengths; and a computing device to record the generated signal."
The patent was filed on July 29, 2022, under Application No. 18/292,192.
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