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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:
Sep. 14, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2004
Applicants:

Jonathan J. Lynch, Oxnard, CA (US);

James H. Schaffner, Chatsworth, CA (US);

Phillip H. Lawyer, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan J. Lynch, Oxnard, CA (US);

James H. Schaffner, Chatsworth, CA (US);

Phillip H. Lawyer, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Santa Monica, CA (US);

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/89 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An imager comprising a sphere of dielectric material and a geodesically configured substrate disposed adjacent said sphere. The geodesically configured substrate comprises a plurality of triangularly shaped elements, at least selected ones of the triangularly shaped elements having an array of detectors disposed thereon, the detectors in the array also being disposed adjacent the dielectric sphere for receiving and detecting incoming electromagnetic waves delivered via said sphere.


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