US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 23 for "Payload delivery apparatus" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,227, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Payload delivery apparatus" was invented by Jacob Echevarria (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Michael Anderson (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Katherine Fitzpatrick (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Evan Pomfret (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Abigail Price (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Sarah Galyon Dorman (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for deploying a payload to a hostile target. The payload may be separable from the apparatus or may be internal to the apparatus. The apparatus has ...