ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,798, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GENESIS INTELLIGENCE LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).
"Vehicle armor materials and systems" was invented by Newton Howard (Potomac, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present systems and apparatus may provide vehicle armor materials and systems that generate electricity from impact and blast energy. For example, in an embodiment, a protective apparatus may comprise a layer of armor and a layer comprising a plurality of electrical generating devices abutting the layer of armor and configured so that energy applied to the layer of armor is transferred to the plurality of electrical gene...