ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,186, issued on March 25, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Mosaic focal plane array" was invented by David J. Gulbransen (McKinney, Texas), Sean P. Kilcoyne (Lompoc, Calif.), Eric Miller (Lompoc, Calif.), Matthew D. Chambers (Goleta, Calif.), Eric J. Beuville (Goleta, Calif.), Andrew E. Gin (Goleta, Calif.) and Adam M. Kennedy (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focal plane array includes a mosaic integrated circuit device having a plurality of discrete integrated circuit tiles mounted on a motherboard. The focal plane array includes an optically continuous detector array electrically connected to the mosa...