US Patent Issued to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT on March 18 for "Cannon having laser ignition system and breech window cleaning system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,318, issued on March 18, was assigned to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Cannon having laser ignition system and breech window cleaning system" was invented by Sangtae Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Yongseon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yunjung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cannon including: a barrel having a chamber in which a shell and a propelling charge are mounted; a breech ring connected to the rear of the barrel, and having a shell inlet communicating with the chamber; a recoil buffer disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the barrel, and guiding recoili...