US Patent Issued to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT on March 18 for "Laser diode primer and cannon igniting propelling charges with electrical signal using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,320, issued on March 18, was assigned to AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Laser diode primer and cannon igniting propelling charges with electrical signal using the same" 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: "A cannon includes: a barrel; a breech ring connected to the rear of the barrel; a breechblock connected to be movable with respect to the breech ring between a closed position and an open position; an ignition device mounted to be partially movable with respect to the breechblock and confi...