ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,209, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Apparatus and method for grazing angle measurement" was invented by Daniel J. Sox (St. Charles, Mo.), Jeffery Murphy (Troy, Mo.), James Tad Wegner (St. Louis) and Brian Gunther (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing grazing angle measurements is disclosed herein. The system includes a laser configured to emit a beam of light and a series of reflective elements configured to direct the beam of light and a hollow sphere is rotatable about a sphere axis with the sphere axis extending through a central region of the hollow sphere. The hol...