ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,210, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).
"Self-erecting launcher assembly" was invented by Christian Eitschberger (Munich), Liam McNelis (Bonn, Germany) and Thilo Scharf (Letterkenny, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-erecting launcher assembly includes a mobile unit, and a magazine positioned in a receptacle of the mobile unit. The magazine includes a plurality of drones. A rail unit is secured to the mobile unit and moves between a closed position and an elevated position. A platform may be secured to the rail unit and is movable in an upward direction and a downward dir...