US Patent Issued to BIRD AEROSYSTEMS on Feb. 24 for "Device, system, and method of aircraft protection and countermeasures against missiles" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,413, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BIRD AEROSYSTEMS LTD. (Herzelia, Israel).

"Device, system, and method of aircraft protection and countermeasures against missiles" was invented by Ronen Factor (Ramat Gan, Israel), David Dragucki (Be'erotayim, Israel), Ariye Yehuda Caplan (Haifa, Israel), Semion Zelikman (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Shay Beer (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Asael Adler (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Tomer Yoselevich (Ramat HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (800) for protecting an aircraft against missiles, includes a Short-Wave InfraRed based (SWIR-based) Missile Tracking Unit, having a SWIR-based optic...