US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Aug. 19 for "Cartridge case crimping tool" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,589, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Cartridge case crimping tool" was invented by Jeffrey A. Gensler (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimping tool for assembling a countermeasure expendable. The crimping tool includes a main body that has a top end, a bottom end vertically opposite to the top end, and an axis defined between the top end and the bottom end. The main body is configured to receive a cap of the countermeasure expendable, a spacer of the countermeasure expendable, and a cartridge case of the countermeasure expendable. The ...