US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Oct. 21 for "Steerable parachute for guiding a payload to a target" (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,130, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Steerable parachute for guiding a payload to a target" was invented by Griffin Hemingway (USAFA, Colo.), Jason Christopher (USAFA, Colo.), Enrique Arjona (USAFA, Colo.), Orval Powell (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Harold Fotso (USAFA, Colo.), Cayden Boll (Albuquerque, N.M.), Christian Lund (Provo, Utah) and Michael Anderson (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable parachute for carrying a payload towards a target. The parachute has a canopy for drag during descent conn...