ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,033, issued on June 17, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Munition with directional projection explosive" was invented by Coulton T. Sadler (Tucson, Ariz.), Brian J. Lukow (Tucson, Ariz.) and Christopher Matthew Turner (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A munition has an explosive charge with direction explosive characteristics, such as a nonuniform detonation velocities. The explosive charge may have multiple portions of explosives with nonuniform characteristics, and/or may have portions with graded nonuniform characteristics. The explosive charge may be used to propel a material from the munition in a desi...