ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (9,013,154) developed by Paul B. O'Sullivan, Westford, Massachusetts, for a "technique for fully discharging a storage capacitor in a firing circuit for an electro-explosive device."

The patent application was filed on April 8, 2011 (13/377,900). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se . . .