US Patent Issued to Washington State University on Oct. 21 for "High-strength munitions structure with tailored fragmentation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,242, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.).

"High-strength munitions structure with tailored fragmentation" was invented by Yogendra M. Gupta (Pullman, Wash.) and Atakan Peker (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bulk metallic glass (BMG) material includes at least one high strength reactive alloy having a surface on which one or more surface features are formed. The one or more surface features are configured to at least partially control a fragmentation of the BMG material. The BMG material forms a cavity within which an explosive is configured to reside."

The patent was filed ...