ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,188, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).
"Interactive weapon targeting system displaying remote sensed image of target area" was invented by John C. McNeil (Tujunga, Calif.), Earl Clyde Cox (La Cresenta, Calif.), Makoto Ueno (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Jon Andrew Ross (Moorpark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data."
The patent was filed on Nov. 28, 2023, under Application No. ...