US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Jan. 20 for "Generation and application of autonomously-created three-dimensional safety offset bounding surfaces from three-dimensional virtual maps around points of interest" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,543, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Generation and application of autonomously-created three-dimensional safety offset bounding surfaces from three-dimensional virtual maps around points of interest" was invented by Nathan A. Jones (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store map data. The apparatus also includes at least one processor configured to segment one or more objects from one or more environment surfaces in the map data. The at least one processor is also configured to determine an offset based on a projectile drift. The at leas...