US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 14 for "Image quality calibration for multi-degree-of freedom actuator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,497, issued on July 14, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Image quality calibration for multi-degree-of freedom actuator" was invented by Tim P. Johnson (Torrance, Calif.), Scott R. Foes (Torrance, Calif.) and Joseph J. Ichkhan (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for optimizing the alignment of an optical system, such as a telescope, using a multi-degree-of freedom (DOF) actuator/hexapod and star field images. The method iteratively adjusts the hexapod in all DOFs using the damped least squares (DLS) optimization algorithm and dynamically changes the size of pixel windows to measu...