US Patent Issued to Cubic on Dec. 2 for "Simulated telescopic mortar bomb" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,065, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cubic Corp. (San Diego).

"Simulated telescopic mortar bomb" was invented by Martyn Armstrong (Salisbury, Great Britain), Neale Smiles (Salisbury, Great Britain), Alastair Parkinson (Salisbury, Great Britain), John Ivor Gardiner (Amesbury, Great Britain), Paul Moncrieff (Amesbury, Great Britain) and Thomas Edward Burroughs (Salisbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training round for performing indirect fire mission, including a top end oriented towards a direction of projectile motion of the training round. A bottom end is situated opposite to the top end. The top end and the bott...