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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2022
Applicant:
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Raytheon Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/935 (2020.01); G01S 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/935 (2020.01); G01S 13/428 (2013.01);
Abstract
A Terrain Following/Terrain Avoidance (TF/TA) radar that receives terrain information and known obstacle information from a plurality of databases; receives radar data from the TF/TA radar; fuses the terrain information and known obstacle information with the radar data; adds unknown obstacle information to the fused data to generate scanning schedule information; and utilizes the scanning schedule information to schedule a next radar scan by the TF/TA radar.