US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on April 29 for "Methods for increasing the number of countermeasure expendables for dispensing systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,166, issued on April 29, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Methods for increasing the number of countermeasure expendables for dispensing systems" was invented by Danny L. Plemons (Austin, Texas), Mark J. Dube (McDade, Texas) and Daniel M. Gilbert (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for leveraging legacy countermeasure dispensing systems (CMDSs). The legacy CMDSs are leveraged through the expansion of breechplates and magazines in a CMDS by expanding the amount of expendables carried by a CMDS while still maintaining the legacy sequenc...