US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Dec. 30 for "Squib enabled hold up battery switch" (New Hampshire, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,336, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Squib enabled hold up battery switch" was invented by Christopher Alix (Barrington, N.H.), Jeffrey A. Gensler (Austin, Texas) and Ross T. Johnson (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A countermeasure includes a cartridge case. There is an impulse cartridge (IC) cup on the cartridge case. There is a deployable payload within the cartridge case, where the deployable payload is adapted to be deployed and expelled from the cartridge case. A battery is on the deployable payload, wherein the battery is enabled to...