US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Aug. 11 for "Terrain following radar with smart scan" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,625, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Terrain following radar with smart scan" was invented by Stephen Reed Porter (Fairview, Texas), Vaishal Shah (Plano, Texas) and Todd Lovell (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Terrain Following/Terrain Avoidance (TF/TA) radar that receives terrain information and known obstacle information from a plurality of databases; receives radar data from the TF/TA radar; fuses the terrain information and known obstacle information with the radar data; adds unknown obstacle information to the fused data to generate scanning schedule information; and utilizes the ...