US Patent Issued to Defiant Precision Technologies on May 19 for "Kinetic energy perforating round and methods of use" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,092, issued on May 19, was assigned to Defiant Precision Technologies LLC (Odessa, Texas).

"Kinetic energy perforating round and methods of use" was invented by Cullen Craig Keyes (Hysham, Mont.), Ian Graham Janke (Parkland County, Canada) and Lawrence Gene Griffin (Morrison, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Perforation devices including gas supply structures and methods of utilizing the same. The perforation devices include a magazine, a barrel, an action, and the gas supply structure. The magazine is configured to contain a plurality of cartridges. The barrel extends between a breech, which is configured to receive a selected ca...