US Patent Issued to MBDA UK on Aug. 4 for "Apparatus for providing an interface between a missile and a launch platform" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,947, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MBDA UK Ltd. (Stevenage, Great Britain).

"Apparatus for providing an interface between a missile and a launch platform" was invented by Dominic Philip Frederick Fountain (Stevenage, Great Britain) and Andrew James Charlton (Stevenage, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed apparatus for providing an interface between a missile and a launch platform. The apparatus comprises one or more rocket motors, and a jettison device operable to jettison the apparatus from the missile. The apparatus is configured to launch from the launch platform with the missile and to jettison from...