MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517056845 A) filed by Bae Systems Plc, London, on June 13, for 'switch, electronic safe and arm unit, fuze system, munition, and method.'

Inventor(s) include Hucker, Martyn John; and Neve, Matthew David.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "According to the present disclosure there is provided a switch for controlling electrical power supplied by a power source to an electronic safe and arm unit, ESAU, the switch comprising: a contact assembly arrangement comprising a contact assembly of a first type movable from a first arrangement ...