US Patent Issued to TEXTRON SYSTEMS on June 23 for "Modular rotorcraft and system for air-delivered effects or sensor payloads" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,265, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXTRON SYSTEMS Corp. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Modular rotorcraft and system for air-delivered effects or sensor payloads" was invented by Matthew T. Velazquez (Mount Airy, Md.), James Gard Blonde (Baltimore), Brian Reissner Caskey (Cockeysville, Md.) and Sean Marshall Baity (Westminster, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactically deployable rotorcraft for targeted delivery of effects and/or sensors includes a body housing an energy subsystem, a control and communications subsystem, and a modular payload compartment for holding an effect or sensor payload, the body having a generally cylindric...