Patents Represented by Attorney Laura Foster
  • Patent number: 7320285
    Abstract: A safe and arm device and method for a fuze in a bomb utilizing a piston and a drive shaft to rotate a rotor in and out of the safe and armed positions. The piston is operated by a difference in air pressure within the fuze as the bomb leaves its delivery vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Terrence Lane Munsinger, David L. Riggs
  • Patent number: 7312855
    Abstract: A long range eye-safe laser radar (LADAR) system for use in an environment where real-time non-cooperative identification of an object is required. In particular, a laser beam is aimed at an object, the laser energy reflected from the object is collected by a detector array for use in generating a composite of both a high resolution 3-Dimensional (3D) shape of the object and the object's high resolution micro-Doppler vibration spectrum, a characteristic of the object as unique as a fingerprint. The composite is then used to automatically identify the object by comparison to a database of similar composite sets of 3D shape and vibration spectrum information with the results of the identification conveyed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Robert T. Hintz, Rudolf G. Buser