US Patent Issued to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on Jan. 27 for "Recovery system for high performance large bore projectiles" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,308, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Recovery system for high performance large bore projectiles" was invented by James F. Murnane (Hackettstown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ballistic projectile recovery system includes a forward opening in an ogive of the projectile, selectively opened to deploy a portion of the recovery system. A parachute is deployable through the opening, connected to the projectile by riser line(s). A rotational bearing assembly makes the riser line(s) rotationally decoupled from the projectile. A bidirectional d...