ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,215, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Automated missile launcher reloader" was invented by Steven Wylie Mitchell (Bethesda, Md.), Timothy Michael Karl Engel (Bethesda, Md.) and Weetek Foo (Bethesda, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method of automated missile launcher reloading includes aligning one or more collars of a shelving system with a path of a canister and activating one or more rollers of the shelving system to translate the canister into the one or more collars. The method also includes coupling a first collar of the one or more collars to the canister and ad...