ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,093, issued on May 19, was assigned to Defiant Precision Technologies LLC (Odessa, Texas).

"Overmolded shaped charge 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: "One example apparatus includes a shaped charge, and an overmold that includes one or more layers surrounding a portion of the shaped charge. The overmold may contact, and conform to, a case within which the shaped charge is received, and the overmold may further contact, and conform to, a cartridge wall within which the shaped charge ...