US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on April 8 for "Deployable flap for high-G maneuvers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,632, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Md.).

"Deployable flap for high-G maneuvers" was invented by Glenn Richard Thoren (Chelmsford, Mass.), William Whitcomb McFarland (Waltham, Mass.), Rebecca Ann DeFronzo (Salem, Mass.), Stephen Louis Bellio (Newton, Mass.), Jesse M. Carr (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeffery Brandon DeLisio (Arlington, Mass.), Gregory M. Fritz (Acton, Mass.) and Sean George (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tail for a projectile includes a body having a longitudinal axis. A steering assembly is secured to the body. The steering assembly includes a flap movable fr...