US Patent Issued to Defiant Engineering on Nov. 18 for "Grounding sabot and methods of use" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,147, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Defiant Engineering LLC (Odessa, Texas).

"Grounding sabot and methods of use" was invented by Cullen Craig Keyes (Hysham, Mont.) and Ian Graham Janke (Parkland County, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sabot that includes a body configured to be partly received within a propellant chamber of a perf gun, and the body includes an interface configured to engage a projectile, a divider that defines part of the interface, an ignition pass through that extends through the divider, an ignition stack electrically connected to the ignition pass through, a ground terminal electrically connected to ...