US Patent Issued to Lyell Loomis on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus and method for securing a missile to a combat drone" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,226, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lyell Loomis Inc. (Gunnison, Colo.).

"Apparatus and method for securing a missile to a combat drone" was invented by Neil Thomas Buttermore (Gunnison, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a payload attachment system secure a missile, a suicide drone, or other ordinance to a wing or fuselage of a combat drone (or another type of aircraft) using one or more vacuum mounting modules, wherein each vacuum mounting module comprises at least one vacuum pump controllably coupled to a microcontroller, a vacuum cup fluidly coupled to the at least one vacuum pump, and a transceiver that rece...