US Patent Issued to Applied Signals Intelligence on June 24 for "Apparatus for and methods of controlling radar contact" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,393, issued on June 24, was assigned to Applied Signals Intelligence Inc. (Sterling, Va.).

"Apparatus for and methods of controlling radar contact" was invented by Martin Rofheart (McLean, Va.) and John William McCorkle (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for and method of using derived information about the direction of propagation of an incoming radar beam to control radar return. The information about the direction of propagation of the incoming radar beam is used to alter aspects of a platform's orientation to control the cross section presented to the radar."

The patent was filed on May 17, 2024, under Applica...