US Patent Issued to Orbital Research on Oct. 21 for "Weaponized unmanned vehicles, weapons release systems, and low-cost munitions for remotely engaging one or more targets" (Ohio, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,241, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland).

"Weaponized unmanned vehicles, weapons release systems, and low-cost munitions for remotely engaging one or more targets" was invented by Anthony Opperman (Wickliffe, Ohio), Douglas E Russell (Canal Fulton, Ohio), Frederick J Lisy (Euclid, Ohio), Scott Suren (Lakewood, Ohio), Emanuel Surunis (Lakewood, Ohio), Nevo Ziv (Boca Raton, Fla.), Michael Thompson (Cleveland) and Edward J. Rapp (Cleveland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unmanned systems, and primarily vehicles, and in most embodiments unmanned aerial systems (UAS), as well as novel guided a...