US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Dec. 23 for "Laser beam based flight path clearing system" (California, Missouri, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,753, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Laser beam based flight path clearing system" was invented by Nathan D. Hiller (Irvine, Calif.), Stephen Lambert (Maryland Heights, Mo.), Todd Harding Tomkinson (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Steven Fulton Griffin (Kihei, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight path clearing system comprising a laser beam system in an aircraft and a controller. The controller is configured to select a number of characteristics for a laser beam based on an object type. The controller is configured to control the laser beam system to emit the laser beam with the number of char...