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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2017
Kevin Michael Sullivan, Kennebunk, ME (US);
Kevin Michael Sullivan, Kennebunk, ME (US);
Nostromo Holdings, LLC, Alexandria, VA (US);
Abstract
A system for correcting the aim of a weapon which is operative to launch a projectile from a barrel on a ballistic path toward a target. A rear surface of the projectile is coated with a fluorescent dye that re-emits radiation when excited by laser radiation. The system includes a source of laser radiation (strobe) pulses that form a cone of light intersecting the ballistic path of the projectile. The strobe pulses are emitted at predetermined times (T, T, T, . . . Tn) following firing of the projectile (at time T). An optical detector receives the radiation re-emitted by a the fluorescent dye at the rear of the projectile at times (T, T, T, . . . Tnz) producing measurable location signals allowing the system to measure the vertical and lateral positions of the projectile at said times, where 'z' is a re-emission delay and T, T, T, . . . Tnz are the respective times T, T, T, . . . Tn each delayed by amount z.