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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2022
Applicant:

Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);

Inventors:

Matthew F. Kepler, Austin, TX (US);

Will R. Grigsby, Austin, TX (US);

Eric C. Hoenes, Austin, TX (US);

Somit S. Mathur, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 11/02 (2006.01); G01S 7/41 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 11/02 (2013.01); G01S 7/415 (2013.01);
Abstract

A soft-kill countermeasure system utilizing a confirmation device, which may be radar, to enhance existing countermeasures, and enable new countermeasures to be utilized to combat the ever evolving and increasing sophistication of threats. The threat defeat confirmation may allow for rapid or immediate redirection of the countermeasure system to address additional simultaneous threats. The confirmation device can be mounted on a gimbal head or above a gimbal to take advantage of slewing movement to direct the confirmation signal towards the threat.


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