US Patent Issued to Washington State University on Oct. 27 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising high-strength reactive alloy(s)" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,117, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising high-strength reactive alloy(s)" was invented by Yogendra M. Gupta (Pullman, Wash.) and Atakan Peker (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage, one or more wings, one or more munitions, and a high-strength reactive alloy that forms at least a portion of the fuselage or the one or more wings. The high-strength reactive alloy is configured to fragment to generate at least one of a blast or projectiles upon impact of the UAV on a target."

The patent was...