ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,324, issued on Aug. 25.

"Payload deployment tools and methods of using same" was invented by John Tyler Thomason (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a payload deployment tool includes providing the payload deployment tool comprising a housing, a pressure chamber, a plurality of payload chambers in communication with the pressure chamber, each of the payload chambers having an upstream opening and an exit opening downstream of the upstream opening, a plurality of upstream pressure-rupturable seals respectively covering the upstream openings, a plurality of exit seals respectively covering the exit openi...