ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,559, issued on July 21, was assigned to BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) (Budapest, Hungary) and TAMOGATOTT KUTATOCSOPORTOK IRODAJA (Budapest, Hungary).

"Optical gate and method for determining a velocity vector of a spherical projectile" was invented by Richard Wohlfart (Budapest, Hungary), Balint Magyar (Budajeno, Hungary), Akos Miklos (Sopron, Hungary), Denes Takacs (Godollo, Hungary) and Gabor Stepan (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optical gate (100) for determining a velocity vector (V) of a spherical projectile (10), wh...