US Patent Issued to Savit on Sept. 8 for "Artillery round with rocket motor delay" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,941, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Savit Corp. (Rockaway, N.J.).

"Artillery round with rocket motor delay" was invented by Kenneth R. Jones (Wayne, N.J.), Nicholas C. Korinis II (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and Stojan Kotefski (Wayne, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rocket-assisted artillery rounds and methods for firing the same are described herein. In one example, a rocket-assisted artillery round includes a projectile body, rocket fuel disposed in the projectile body, an ignitor positioned to ignite the rocket fuel, and an ignition control system. The ignition control system includes a controller coupled to first and second se...