ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,486, issued on April 15, was assigned to BAE SYSTEMS BOFORS AB (Karlskoga, Sweden).
"Method for producing a warhead component" was invented by Christer Thuman (Karlskoga, Sweden), Hamzah Hamdan (Karlskoga, Sweden), Fredrik Thuvander (Karlstad, Sweden), Oskar Malmqvist (Hallsberg, Sweden), Bjorn Johansson (Karlskoga, Sweden) and Alexander Bark (Orebro, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for producing a warhead component including an inner shell. The method includes arranging a first casing of a thermoplastic to enclose the inner shell, arranging pre-formed projectiles between the first casing of thermoplastic an...