US Patent Issued to NOSTROMO on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for improving terminal effect of an air-burst projectile" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,023, issued on June 17, was assigned to NOSTROMO LLC (Kennebunk, Maine).

"Method and apparatus for improving terminal effect of an air-burst projectile" was invented by Kevin Michael Sullivan (Kennebunk, Maine) and Torgrim Jorgensen (Kennebunk, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method and apparatus for a remote weapon station or incorporated into manually-aimed weapons. The methodology requires use of a muzzle velocity sensor that refines the aiming of the second and subsequent fires or volleys fired from weapon systems. When firing the first volley a weapon uses an estimated velocity and, at firing, the muzzle velocity of a p...