US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Oct. 28 for "Rocket motor including an embedded charge assembly (ECA) configured to support a burn rate enhancement (BRE) wire" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,929, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Rocket motor including an embedded charge assembly (ECA) configured to support a burn rate enhancement (BRE) wire" was invented by David E. Hare (Beverly, Mass.), Mitchell L. Moffet (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jacob A. Pinello-Benavides (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a rocket motor in which burn rate enhancement (BRE) wires are used to accelerate the burn rate of the solid propellent, embedded charge assemblies (ECAs) are configured as support structures for the BRE wires. Each ECA includes an energetic material that is configured to burn along with the s...