US Patent Issued to The United States of America as Represented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice on Dec. 30 for "Specially-shaped-charges for focusing fluid jets" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,334, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (Washington).

"Specially-shaped-charges for focusing fluid jets" was invented by Ian B. Vabnick (Fredericksburg, Va.), Daniel E. McCarthy (La Plata, Md.) and Lee R. Foltz (Indian Head, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are shaped-charges having curved walls to provide better controllable and improved liquid jet parameters. The shaped-charge comprises a container having a plurality of curved walls for containing a liquid. One or more explosive charges are immersed in the liq...