ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,710, issued on March 4, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Automated missile loading system" was invented by Christopher Alden Greer (Tuscon, Ariz.), Brian Gin (Vail, Ariz.), Nathan Albrand Jones (Vail, Ariz.), Zachary Boydell (Cary, N.C.) and Emile M. Szlemko (Vail, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to automatically loading a plurality of hazardous entities into a hazardous-entity container. Such automatic loading is performed by: i) lifting a selected hazardous entity of a plurality of hazardous entities from a stowed position to an elevation of a corresponding hazardous-entit...