ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,092, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAAB AB (Linkoping, Sweden).
"Method and system for dispensing detection of a pyrotechnical countermeasure" was invented by Karl Strihagen (Vallingby, Sweden) and Albert Swanepoel (Hasselby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a system and a method for dispensing detection of a pyrotechnical countermeasure in a pyrotechnical countermeasure dispenser system (1). The method comprises: -providing a pyrotechnical countermeasure dispenser control unit (4) with a recoil-sensing device (5), wherein upon activation of a pyrotechnical countermeasure dispensing command, -monitor...