US Patent Issued to University of New Hampshire on Dec. 2 for "Battle tank with armored overhead turret design" (Serbian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,062, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of New Hampshire (Durham, N.H.).

"Battle tank with armored overhead turret design" was invented by Sebastian Balos (Novi Sad, Serbia), Marko Knezevic (Durham, N.H.) and Danka Labus Zlatanovic (Novi Sad, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a new design for a combat vehicle, such as a battle tank, that includes enhanced armor plating overhead of the passengers inside the vehicle. The enhanced armor may include thicker plating within a turret that is arranged over where one or more passengers are seated within a turret basket. In some respects, the plated region of t...