US Patent Issued to Raytheon on May 20 for "Coded aperture focal plane array using all detectors" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,511, issued on May 20, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Coded aperture focal plane array using all detectors" was invented by David J. Gulbransen (Fairview, Texas), Jae Hyun Kyung (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Christian M. Boemler (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system includes a focal plane array, a detector dual-input circuit, a detector selector circuit and a select module. The focal plane array includes a plurality of detectors. The detector dual-input circuit combines outputs from the detectors received at a first input channel without outputs received at a second input channel. The detector...