Patents by Inventor Nicole Sapp

Nicole Sapp has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multipurpose munition for personnel and materiel defeat
    Patent number: 10969212
    Abstract: An ammunition round comprises an optimized projectile incorporating a hardened penetrator and a dual safe-fuze for a medium caliber high rate of fire round packaged into a form factor smaller than currently available multi-purpose rounds. The ammunition round incorporates a hardened segment penetrator followed by a point detonated high explosive warhead that substantially increases the terminal performance against both materiel and personnel targets. The hardened segment penetrator localizes the kinetic, energy of the projectile to increase target penetration prior to the initiation of the high explosive warhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: U.S. Government as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: David Rophael, Jeffrey Darbig, Thomas Presutti, Daniel DiMartino, Nicole Sapp
  • Medium caliber high kinetic energy round with tracer and self-destruct mechanism
    Patent number: 10527393
    Abstract: A medium caliber high kinetic energy round with tracer and self-destruct mechanism having an optimized kinetic energy projectile incorporating a fully hardened projectile body and an explosive self-destruct mechanism for a medium caliber high rate of fire round. The medium caliber high kinetic energy ammunition round incorporates a multiple piece sub-projectile that integrates a tracer and high explosive self-destruct mechanism to neutralize the penetrator during self-destruct and minimize collateral damage during firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Nicole Sapp, Jeffrey Darbig, Jonathan Escobar
  • Enhanced terminal performance medium caliber multipurpose traced self-destruct projectile
    Patent number: 10502537
    Abstract: An ammunition round comprises an optimized projectile incorporating a hardened penetrator and an explosive self-destruct mechanism for a medium caliber high rate of fire round. The ammunition round incorporates a hardened segment penetrator followed by a pyrotechnically initiated high explosive warhead that substantially increases the effective range and terminal performance against RAM targets. The hardened segment penetrator localizes the kinetic energy of the projectile to increase target penetration prior to the initiation of the high explosive warhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Nicole Sapp, Jeffrey Darbig, Jonathan Escobar
  • Primer adapter for hand grenade fuze
    Patent number: 8453573
    Abstract: A primer adapter allows hand grenade fuzes of different configurations to use the same primer for the ignition of their explosive trains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Thomas McKimm, Amy Mulvoy, Nicole Sapp, Anthony DiGiacomo