US Patent Issued to MBDA UK on May 6 for "Safety assembly for training use of a laser-directed energy weapon" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,263, issued on May 6, was assigned to MBDA UK Ltd. (Stevenage, Great Britain).

"Safety assembly for training use of a laser-directed energy weapon" was invented by Andrew Peters (Filton, Great Britain), Jon Daw (Filton, Great Britain), Martyn Robert Jennings (Filton, Great Britain), William Michael George Halstead (Filton, Great Britain), Colin Bridgewater (Filton, Great Britain) and Mark Owen (Filton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety assembly for use with a laser-directed energy weapon is disclosed. The assembly comprises a control system comprising a photodetector and a processing unit; and an optical device co...