US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Aug. 11 for "Nonuniform laser beam scan based flight path clearing system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,993, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Nonuniform laser beam scan based flight path clearing system" was invented by Nathan D. Hiller (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for clearing a flight path. A number of characteristics is selected for a laser beam based on an object type. The laser beam is emitted with the number of characteristics in a direction relative to a flight path of the aircraft. The laser beam with the number of characteristics selected for the object type is moved to scan an area using a path from a central location to an outer location of the area. A number of ...