US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 8 for "Nonfragmentation missile and method of delivering a payload therewith" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,544, issued on July 8, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Nonfragmentation missile and method of delivering a payload therewith" was invented by Luke Hardy (Usafa, Colo.), Michael Anderson (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Bradley Bitting (Usafa, Colo.), Trinity Good (Usafa, Colo.), Anthony Neil (Usafa, Colo.) and Orval Powell (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A missile for delivering a payload and having a longitudinal axis. The missile comprises a nonfragmenation multi-directional munition having a hollow collar. The hollow collar ha...