ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,794, issued on May 20, was assigned to RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD. (Haifa, Israel).
"Two-axis motor-driven spherical orienting mechanism" was invented by Oded Lahav (Atzmon, Israel), Omri Zvi Shacham (Manoff, Israel) and Leonid Fraiman (Karmiel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for orienting a payload support includes first and second transversely deployed drive assemblies, each having a motor that drives a drive arm. The payload support is directly pivotally mounted to a first drive arm. Connection between the second drive arm and the payload support is via a coupling linked to the second drive arm via a co...