US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on June 23 for "System and method for aircraft altimetry and terrain profiling via forward looking active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar" (Washington, Georgia, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,538, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for aircraft altimetry and terrain profiling via forward looking active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar" was invented by Brian O. Helfrecht (Wilsonville, Ore.), Carlo L. Tiana (Goldendale, Wash.) and Nicolas Veltmaat (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft-based system for providing forward-looking terrain profiling and downward-looking altimetry via a single active electronically scanned array (AESA) orients the AESA through a sequence of desired directions, e.g., according to a predetermined scan pattern....