US Patent Issued to TEXTRON SYSTEMS on Aug. 25 for "Air-based laser counter-countermeasure system" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,351, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXTRON SYSTEMS Corp. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Air-based laser counter-countermeasure system" was invented by William Bignon Agassounon (Lexington, Mass.), Anton Zavriyev (Swampscott, Mass.), Robert Lloyd Steadman (Mansfield, Mass.), Abel Oak Livingstone (Hampstead, N.H.) and Henry Joseph Finneral (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-based counter-countermeasure (CCM) system includes an autonomous or semi-autonomous unmanned aircraft capable of deployment to an area of a countermeasure system having (1) a laser detector to receive and identify an incident laser signal as a target...