US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on April 21 for "Blast shield apparatus and method" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,439, issued on April 21, was assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Alexandria, Va.).

"Blast shield apparatus and method" was invented by Taylor Rycroft (Sherborn, Mass.) and Griffin Donohue (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a blast shield apparatus comprises: a blast resistant blanket having a blanket edge and a blanket center region; a plurality of blanket magnets disposed near the blanket edge and distributed along the blanket edge; and a chamber having a first side facing the blast resistant blanket and coupled to the blanket center region of the blast r...