ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,031, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH (Suedheide, Germany).
"Decoy target, system and method for protecting an object" was invented by Tobias Moderegger (Bischofswiesen, Germany) and Martin Fegg (Bischofswiesen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoy target, system, and method for protecting moving objects. The decoy target has at least two corner reflectors which reflect radar radiation, wherein the corner reflectors are arranged in a reflector matrix in a staggered manner in terms of height, width and/or depth, specified by the at least one connecting element, corresponding to a target to b...