US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Nov. 3 for "Directing energy by distributed array of independent coherent mobile elements" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,561, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Directing energy by distributed array of independent coherent mobile elements" was invented by David D. Crouch (Farragut, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for directing RF energy from an active retrodirective antenna array including moving elements onto a target includes: receiving a beacon from the target by each element, the scattered beacon including an RF pilot signal imposed thereon, extracting the RF pilot signal from the received scattered optical beacon, dynamically measuring a distance to an area of optical beacon illumination on the ...