US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Sept. 30 for "Submunition assembly" (Nebraska, Arizona, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,318, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Submunition assembly" was invented by Paul S. MacDonald (Tiverton, R.I.), Jaylan S. Jones (Tucson, Ariz.), Jessie A. Polanco (Tucson, Ariz.) and Shawn P. Burke (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A submunition assembly to be stored and deployed from an aerial vehicle, particularly a supersonic vehicle, includes a container having at least first and second walls that are joined at one end by a hinge that together define a volume along an axis perpendicular to the hinge that contains a submunition. The submunition assembly is suitably axially-shaped with ...