US Patent Issued to Goodrich on Feb. 18 for "Modular reconfigurable optical systems for supporting multiple modalities" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,724, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Goodrich Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Modular reconfigurable optical systems for supporting multiple modalities" was invented by John Anthony Tejada (Londonderry, N.H.) and William Jeff McKinley (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system comprising includes an off-axis folded three mirror anastigmat (TMA) telescope including a primary mirror for receiving energy from a scene. A secondary mirror is aligned to receive reflected energy from the primary mirror. A fold mirror is aligned to receive reflected energy from the secondary mirror. A tertiary mirror is aligned to receive...