US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Feb. 24 for "Radar having multi-band concentric rings of array elements" (New Hampshire, Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,681, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Radar having multi-band concentric rings of array elements" was invented by Shane D. Blair (Salem, N.H.), Yueh-Chi Chang (Salem, N.H.), Wayne Kim Jr. (Virginia Beach, Va.), Wei Yu (Natick, Mass.) and Patrick J. Makridakis (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for a radar system having an array including a series of concentric rings of array elements, wherein the concentric rings that have a shape defined by respective ellipses that increase in size from a center that is common to the respective ellipses. The series of concentric ring...