US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on April 1 for "Apparatus and method suitable for use with a munition" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,905, issued on April 1, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Apparatus and method suitable for use with a munition" was invented by Martyn John Hucker (Monmouthshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a fuze arming system for a munition, comprising: an arming circuit arranged to detect a setback event and, in response to the setback event, generate a signal indicating that an arming event has occurred, wherein the arming circuit comprises a sensor configured to produce a graduated output when the setback event occurs, and fuze arming system is arranged to use...