US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 22 for "Nonfragmentation multiple vector munition" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,436, issued on July 22, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Nonfragmentation multiple vector munition" was invented by Luke Hardy (USAF, Colo.), Michael Anderson (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Bradley Bitting (USAF, Colo.), Trinity Good (USAF, Colo.), Anthony Neil (USAF, Colo.) and Orval Powell (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongate munition with a longitudinal axis and having a nonfragmenation hollow collar. The hollow collar has an inner surface and an opposed outer surface with a first plurality of ports extending through ...