ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,485, issued on April 15, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).
"Detecting body spin on a projectile" was invented by Philip Cheung (Burnsville, Minn.), Jared Wall (St. Anthony, Minn.), John Lamberg (Minnetonka, Minn.), Matthew P. Contons (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Michael Balk (Shoreview, Minn.), Robert A. Sainati (Bloomington, Minn.) and David Nohre (Monticello, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body spin detection device for a projectile, the device including a perturbing element and a detection element electrically connected to detection circuitry in the projectile. The detection circuitry configured...