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Time Lines

Optical tracking system for refueling

Invented by: Joseph G. Mickley
Kentwood, MI

Raymond Michael Stitt
Ada, MI

Frank Saggio, III
Grand Rapids, MI

Jane C. Pavlich
Ann Arbor, MI

Gregory J. Wassick
Petersburg, MI

Originally Assigned to: Smiths Aerospace LLC
Grand Rapids, MI
[Now assigned to . . .]

Issued:2010-03-23
Filed:2005-10-14
Application No:11249262
Examined by:Mansen; Michael R

An aerial refueling system including a refueling drogue assembly including a refueling drogue and a refueling hose in captive relation with the refueling drogue and a drogue positioning system. The drogue positioning system including a radiation emitter, a radiation receiver and a signal processor. Then the radiation emitter is adapted to direct radiation to a positioning area a defined distance from the radiation emitter, the radiation carrying a modulated location signal containing information corresponding to positions within the positioning area. The radiation receiver is adapted to receive at least a portion of the emitted radiation carrying the modulated signal and output a signal to the signal processor indicative of the modulation of the location signal of the received radiation. And the signal processor is adapted to process the outputted signal and identify a position within the positioning area indicative of the location in the positioning area of the received radiation.

[pdf] U.S. Pat. No. 7,681,839

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