Patents by Inventor Enrico Fossati

Enrico Fossati has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Optoelectronic digital apparatus for assisting an operator in determining the shooting attitude to be given to a hand-held grenade launcher so as to strike a moving target, and respective operation method
    Patent number: 8757487
    Abstract: An embodiment of an optoelectronic apparatus for assisting an operator in determining the shooting attitude to give to a hand-held grenade launcher so as to strike a moving target including an electronic processing unit configured so as to: measure the pitch angle and the heading angle of the grenade launcher and the distance of the target when the grenade launcher is moved by the operator during the pointing of the moving target, determine position data indicative of the positions of the moving target, determine a future impact time of the grenade on the target on the basis of position data and of data indicative of the ballistics of the grenade, determine a shooting attitude of the target on the basis of the impact time, measure the pitch angle and heading angle indicating the attitude imparted to the grenade launcher by the operator, compute a pitch difference between the shooting pitch angle and the pitch angle measured and a heading difference between the shooting heading angle and the heading angle meas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Selex Galileo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Santini, Andrea Magi, Enrico Fossati
  • OPTOELECTRONIC DIGITAL APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING AN OPERATOR IN DETERMINING THE SHOOTING ATTITUDE TO BE GIVEN TO A HAND-HELD GRENADE LAUNCHER SO AS TO STRIKE A MOVING TARGET, AND RESPECTIVE OPERATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20130181047
    Abstract: An embodiment of an optoelectronic apparatus for assisting an operator in determining the shooting attitude to give to a hand-held grenade launcher so as to strike a moving target including an electronic processing unit configured so as to: measure the pitch angle and the heading angle of the grenade launcher and the distance of the target when the grenade launcher is moved by the operator during the pointing of the moving target, determine position data indicative of the positions of the moving target, determine a future impact time of the grenade on the target on the basis of position data and of data indicative of the ballistics of the grenade, determine a shooting attitude of the target on the basis of the impact time, measure the pitch angle and heading angle indicating the attitude imparted to the grenade launcher by the operator, compute a pitch difference between the shooting pitch angle and the pitch angle measured and a heading difference between the shooting heading angle and the heading angle meas
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: SELEX GALILEO S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Santini, Andrea Magi, Enrico Fossati