US Patent Issued to Reynolds Systems on Sept. 8 for "Compact encapsulated exploding foil initiator assembly" (California, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,937, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Reynolds Systems Inc. (Middletown, Calif.).

"Compact encapsulated exploding foil initiator assembly" was invented by John P. Segal (Cobb, Calif.) and Christopher J. Nance (Athens, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact encapsulated initiator assembly includes an initiator chip having a plurality of bridge contacts; a first terminal, including a first terminal end facing an opposite axial direction, configured to releasably and electrically couple with an electrical conductor of ordnance, and a first chip end that electrically couples with one of the bridge contacts; a second terminal, in...