US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 29 for "Conic micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) micro-mirror array (MMA) steered active situational awareness sensor" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,623, issued on July 29, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Conic micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) micro-mirror array (MMA) steered active situational awareness sensor" was invented by Sean D. Keller (Tucson, Ariz.), Gerald P. Uyeno (Tucson, Ariz.) and Benn H. Gleason (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active situational sensor uses a beam steerer to steer a spot-beam onto a conical shape of a fixed mirror oriented along an optical axis to scan a FOR. The sensor may rapidly scan a 360deg horizontal FOR with a specified vertical FOR or any portion thereof, move discretely between multiple specific objec...