US Patent Issued to Raytheon on April 8 for "Optical window with integrated temperature sensing" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,044, issued on April 8, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Optical window with integrated temperature sensing" was invented by Kyle L. Grosse (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Gary A. Frazier (Garland, Texas) and Catherine Trent (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a temperature profile of an optical window comprising: measuring a temperature-dependent electrical property of a thermally sensitive material included in the optical window using an embedded electromagnetic interference shield in the optical window to determine the temperature profile of the optical window, the embedded electromagneti...