US Patent Issued to The University of Kansas on March 3 for "Maneuvering aeromechanically stable sabot system" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,054, issued on March 3, was assigned to The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Maneuvering aeromechanically stable sabot system" was invented by Ronald Martin Barrett (Lawrence, Kan.) and Lauren Nicole Schumacher (Rolla, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aeromechanically stable sabot system that includes a center of gravity that is placed forward of an aerodynamic center of the aeromechanically stable sabot system when in steady-state flight. By placing the center of gravity forwards of the aerodynamic center, the sabot system exhibits positive longitudinal and directional stability. To illustrate, the sabot system and/or po...