US Patent Issued to Raytheon Systems on Aug. 18 for "Guidance method and system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,767, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Raytheon Systems Ltd. (Harlow, Great Britain).

"Guidance method and system" was invented by Aidan Ronald Clements (Harlow, Great Britain) and Jonathan Andrew Blenkharn (Harlow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for guiding a weapon to a target, the method comprising: obtaining a required impact vector for the weapon at the target, obtaining a line of sight (LOS) vector from the weapon to the target; determining a velocity vector of the weapon; defining a guidance plane, the guidance plane being a plane in which both the impact vector and the LOS vector lie; generating guidan...