US Patent Issued to Lyell Loomis on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for ordinance mounting system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,895, issued on March 31, was assigned to Lyell Loomis Inc. (Gunnison, Colo.).

"Apparatus and method for ordinance mounting system" was invented by Neil Buttermore (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a payload attachment system secure a payload to a wing or fuselage of the drone (or another type of aircraft) using one or more vacuum mounting modules, wherein each vacuum mounting module comprises at least one vacuum pump controllably coupled to a microcontroller, a vacuum cup fluidly coupled to the at least one vacuum pump, and a transceiver that receives an instruction corresponding to one of a vacuum...