ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,340, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to OMNITEK PARTNERS LLC (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.).
"Inertial igniters for low-g and long-duration firing acceleration munitions and the like" was invented by Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inertial mechanism including a member rotatable about an axis between activatable and activated positions, in the activatable position a first center of mass of the member is offset from the axis in a direction perpendicular to a direction of acceleration, the member having a surface; and another member rotatable about an axis between rest and activated positions, the rest pos...