ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,247, issued on June 23, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Dynamic store ejection system" was invented by Jerry Provenza (Niceville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A store ejection system for ejecting a store from an aircraft includes a store ejector having a plurality of suspension hooks for releasing the store, and a plurality of ejector pistons for pushing the store downward and away, a force adjuster configured to adjust a force setting that determines a force the ejector pistons of the store ejector to push the store, a pitch adjuster conf...