US Patent Issued to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on April 15 for "Multi-compartment mortar increment container" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,488, issued on April 15, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Multi-compartment mortar increment container" was invented by Viral Panchal (Parlin, N.J.), Linjie Zhu (Livingston, N.J.), Fei Shen (Shanghai), Mingwan Young (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jacqueline A. Longcore (Andover, N.J.), Dylan McHugh (Dover, N.J.), Chandrark Patel (Belle Mead, N.J.), Elbert Caravaca (Budd Lake, N.J.) and Mohamed Elalem (Carteret, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-compartment mortar increment container (MIC) enables burning of two propellants to broaden the pressure-time curve provi...