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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adam T Drobot, Annandale, VA (US);
Assignee:
APTI, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; H05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
89-111 ; 250310 ; 2503581 ;
Abstract
A defense system and a method for discriminating between armed re-entry vehicles and unarmed objects which are in close proximity of each other. The re-entry vehicles and the unarmed objects are bathed in a cloud of relativistic electrons with the resulting signatures from heavy objects, i.e., re-entry vehicles, being imaged directly. Detectors sense the location and identify of the re-entry vehicles and passes this information onto a weapons platform for tracking and interception.