US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Sept. 2 for "Dual-mode roll/nod gimballed seeker for a forming warhead" (Arizona, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,088, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Dual-mode roll/nod gimballed seeker for a forming warhead" was invented by Jaylan S. Jones (Tucson, Ariz.), Frederick B. Koehler (Tucson, Ariz.), Paul S. MacDonald (Tiverton, R.I.), Ronald L. Roncone (Tucson, Ariz.) and John Regis Leach (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-mode roll/nod gimballed seeker is configured to provide an unobstructed path for a forming-warhead penetrator. A nod assembly includes first and second seekers separately offset from the roll axis whose FOV overlap within a stand-off range to a target. A roll gimbal rotates the ...