US Patent Issued to Raytheon on July 7 for "Integrated additive manufacture (AM) of explosive payloads" (Arizona, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,650, issued on July 7, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Integrated additive manufacture (AM) of explosive payloads" was invented by Shawn S. Coffee (Tucson, Ariz.), Christopher F. Williams (Tucson, Ariz.), Jude Sprouffske (Marana, Ariz.), Mark W. Olles (Hilton, N.Y.) and Ian D. Stochl (Bloomfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated Additive Manufacture (AM) of explosive payloads including both energetic and non-energetic components is achieved by controlling the AM processes such that a temperature of any deposited energetic material is bounded below and away from the energetic material's onset temperature t...