ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,096, issued on July 28, was assigned to CARBOTEH TECHNOLOGIES D.O.O. (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

"Air defense system for anti-aircraft combat comprizing counter counter measures device to trigger the counter measure of the aircraft prior launching anti-aircraft missile at the aircraft" was invented by Srecko Knezevic (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Primoz Peterca (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Radovan Sernec (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Luka Zupancic (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention refers to an air defense system comprising at least one counter countermeasures device, and at least one anti-aircraft weapon system and to an an...