Patent 9079807 was granted and assigned to Aerojet on July, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An end-burning grain of a solid rocket motor or other gas-generating device is supplemented with one or more sticks of high-burn-rate propellant embedded in a matrix of a relatively low-burn-rate propellant. The sticks increase the burning surface area as the grain burns by forming conical indentations in the surface.