US Patent Issued to KNDS FRANCE on Sept. 2 for "Device for launching a drone using spring thrust, method for launching drones using this device, and tool for implementing this method" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,050, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KNDS FRANCE (Versailles, France).

"Device for launching a drone using spring thrust, method for launching drones using this device, and tool for implementing this method" was invented by Pierre Gautier (Bourges, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for launching a drone using spring thrust, in which the means that control the unlocking of an ejection assembly from its armed position include a release housing containing a release chamber, at least one release element which, with the housing, delimits the chamber and is able to move, under the action of the pressure of a gas introduced ...