US Patent Issued to DRS Sustainment Systems on Oct. 6 for "Method and system for a missile adapter" (Illinois, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,992, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DRS Sustainment Systems Inc. (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Method and system for a missile adapter" was invented by Kaci Backs (Glen Carbon, Ill.) and Jeffrey S. Fitzgerald (Florissant, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein n adapter is configured to receive a missile therein. The adapter includes a support member including an internal surface, an external surface, a fore portion, and an aft portion. The external surface includes one or more guide pins along the fore portion configured to slide through one or more corresponding guide rails on a receiving dual column chassis of a ...