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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:
Aug. 29, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
John N Lee, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Ravindra A Athale, Burk, VA (US);
Peter B Rolsma, Edgewater, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United states of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G / ; G01S / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
332-751 ; 364822 ; 367123 ;
Abstract
Disclosed as a beamforming system, particularly useful for seismic exploration or undersea surveillance, in which data processing of the system is done optically. Sensor outputs are subjected to plural sets of time delays, and the system beams formed optically. Four embodiments are presented of the optical processing hardware.