US 12,281,880 B2
High energy laser defense weapon system with automated UAS detection and classification functionality
David Benjamin Allison, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US)
Assigned to KORD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Huntsville, AL (US)
Filed by David Benjamin Allison, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/482,604.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/413,770, filed on Oct. 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0118059 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. F41H 13/00 (2006.01); F41H 11/02 (2006.01); G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02B 27/14 (2006.01)
CPC F41H 13/0062 (2013.01) [F41H 11/02 (2013.01); G02B 26/0816 (2013.01); G02B 27/14 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A high energy laser (HEL) weapon system comprising:
a payload assembly including a laser payload module and an optical payload module;
the laser payload module including a HEL optical assembly and a HEL fast steering mirror assembly disposed in a first predetermined optically aligned arrangement with one another;
the optical payload module including a first camera and a second camera disposed in a second predetermined optically aligned arrangement with one another and each respective camera having a respective camera optical element; and
wherein the HEL optical assembly and the HEL fast steering mirror assembly of the laser payload module do not share any of the respective camera optical elements of the optical payload module.