US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Jan. 13 for "Projectiles and projectile deployment systems" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,453, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Projectiles and projectile deployment systems" was invented by Andrew Heafitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Laura Katarina Berk (Boulder, Colo.) and Felipe Bohorquez (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projectile includes a shell defining a cavity and one or more retainers. A bolo is disposed within the cavity and a backplate is engaged with the one or more retainers. The backplate is configured to separate from the shell to release the bolo in response to imbalanced forces resulting from deploying the projectile."

The patent was filed on June 10, 202...