US Patent Issued to Anduril Industries on July 8 for "Rotating release launching system" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,310, issued on July 8, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Rotating release launching system" was invented by Nicholas Robert Alley (Marietta, Ga.), Jesse Owen Williams (Marietta, Ga.) and Matthew Gordon Brasher (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a payload deployment system that is operative to receive and retain a configurable payload. The payload deployment mechanism helps to reduce the drag of the payload and to protect the payload from environmental factors. The payload may be released using a hinge mechanism to ensure the payload does not contact the payload de...