US Patent Issued to ELTA SYSTEMS on Jan. 27 for "Active protection against beam-riding guided munition" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,301, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ELTA SYSTEMS LTD. (Ashdod, Israel).

"Active protection against beam-riding guided munition" was invented by Jacob Rovinsky (Modiin, Israel) and Yoav Tourgeman (Moshav Moledet, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter includes an active protection system and a method, dedicated for detecting, locating, and incapacitating beam-riding missiles and in that way protecting an asset from being targeted by the missile. According to some examples following receipt of a threat-indication, the active protection system estimates a location of a beam used for directing a ...