Patents Assigned to VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLC
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Patent number: 11927767Abstract: A system, method, and device for configuring an optical aiming device for ballistic drop compensation (BDC). The optical aiming device can include a housing with a reticle pane defining a reticle display field viewable by a user and indicating a zero point, the housing further including a plurality of axially spaced lenses and defining an optical path therethrough. In various embodiments the system includes a display device configured to project an image generated from a display, a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The computer readable data storage medium can include instructions executable by the processor to receive a first set of ballistics input data indicating a first type of ammunition, determine a BDC pattern including at least two holdover marks corresponding to at least two ranges for the first type of ammunition, and project the BDC pattern onto the reticle display field.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jacob C. VanBecelaere, Alejandro Chavez
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Patent number: 11788809Abstract: An apparatus for loading cartridges into a magazine comprises a setting mechanism including a sleeve, a body, a setting tool, and a link. The body may be slidingly disposed about the sleeve so that the body and the sleeve can slide relative to one another along a sliding axis. The body may translate between an upper position and a lower position along the sliding axis. A first end of the setting tool may be pivotally coupled to the sleeve for relative rotation between the setting tool and the sleeve about a forward axis. The setting tool rotates about the forward axis as the body translates between the upper position and the lower position.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Brandon Thomas Hefer, Brandon Karl Trostrud, Sean Higgs
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Patent number: 11781831Abstract: A holster for receiving and withdrawing a handgun has a proximal wall portion with a handgun retention mechanism thereon. The mechanism having a first lever with a tab portion for actuation and release of a trigger guard, the lever having a snap fit into a lever region without a separate pin. A belt engaging member covers the lever region capturing the first lever therein. If a second retention mechanism is used, another lever with a tab portion is positioned so the tabs are stacked, depressing one also depresses the tab behind it, such that both mechanisms are released. Overmolded polymer layers in the holster body provides a softer interior handgun engagement surfaces. The holster body is split forwardly with a threaded fastener for clamping onto the handgun. No holster body is beneath or rearward of the tab portion, configured as a thumb button, allowing smooth transition to gripping the handgun.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Troy E. Lance, Oscar C. Woods, Daniel D. Sereday, Christopher J. Michael, Robert J. Meinert
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Patent number: 11725905Abstract: A holster for receiving and withdrawing a handgun has a proximal wall portion with a handgun retention mechanism thereon. The mechanism having a first lever with a tab portion for actuation and release of a trigger guard, the lever having a snap fit into a lever region without a separate pin. A belt engaging member covers the lever region capturing the first lever therein. If a second retention mechanism is used, another lever with a tab portion is positioned so the tabs are stacked, depressing one also depresses the tab behind it, such that both mechanisms are released. Overmolded polymer layers in the holster body provides a softer interior handgun engagement surfaces. The holster body is split forwardly with a threaded fastener for clamping onto the handgun. No holster body is beneath or rearward of the tab portion, configured as a thumb button, allowing smooth transition to gripping the handgun.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Troy E. Lance, Oscar C. Woods, Daniel D. Sereday, Christopher J. Michael, Robert J. Meinert
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Patent number: 11725892Abstract: An example charging handle comprises a body having a handle portion, a bolt engaging portion and a shaft portion extending forwardly from the handle portion to the bolt engaging portion. The handle portion of the body may have a starboard arm extending away from the shaft portion in a starboard direction and a port arm extending away from the shaft portion in a portward direction. The charging handle may comprise a grip member disposed about the handle portion of the body so that the grip member encapsulates the handle portion and the handle portion is disposed inside the grip member. The grip member may comprise a thermoplastic material overmolded on the handle portion of the body.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Aden P. Wright, Bryan P. Peterson, Christopher D. Laack, Robert J. Meinert
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Patent number: 11685482Abstract: Watersport board fins with fin retention systems and associated watersport boards and methods. A fin includes a hydrodynamic blade and a fin base extending from the hydrodynamic blade. The hydrodynamic blade defines a fin plane and includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a foil surface. The fin further includes a fin retention system with a selective retention system that includes a retainer and an actuator coupled to the retainer via a pivot shaft. The actuator forms a portion of the hydrodynamic blade when the selective retention system is in a locked configuration and is configured to rotate away from the fin plane when the selective retention system transitions from the locked configuration to an unlocked configuration. The retainer is configured to rotate away from the fin plane when the selective retention system transitions from the unlocked configuration to the locked configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Wim de Jager, Jason Brewer
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Patent number: 11639833Abstract: A motorized magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a powered sorting and lifting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, a vertical gravity fed cartridge chute positioned laterally next to the sorting and lifting wheel, an accumulator portion at a lower end of the chute, and a loading portion comprising a receiver for magazines to be loaded and a pusher mechanism for inserting cartridges into the magazines, all supported and substantially contained by a housing. Control circuitry includes jam mediation system.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Richard Slevin, Paul R. Fischer
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Patent number: 11638476Abstract: In embodiments, a belt clamp includes an inboard plate and an outboard plate that are pivotally coupled at their upper ends. The belt clamp may also include a spring biased locking mechanism that selectively and releasably connects the lower end of the inboard plate to the lower end of the outboard plate by way of locking posts in the inboard plate that are displaced upwardly from the lower edge of said plate. The outboard locking plate may have latch members that are entirely contained (except for opposing actuation buttons) within a compartment formed by two portions of the outboard plate connected by a living hinge. The opposing actuation buttons require a motion in a first direction, such as upwardly, to allow motion in a second direction, such as inwardly, to rotate the latching members inwardly to release the locking posts.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Christopher J. Michael, Daniel Sereday
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Patent number: 11619460Abstract: An electronic magazine loader for loading cartridges into a magazine includes a lifting wheel, a chute, and a magazine loading portion. The wheel receives an unordered batch of cartridges and singularly lifts and deposits the cartridges into the chute. The chute transfers the cartridges to the magazine loading portion where a setting mechanism inserts the cartridges into the magazine. A mechanism for directionally orienting the cartridges orients all cartridges to a proper directional orientation before reaching the magazine loading portion. The mechanism can be lifting wheel shelf structure or chute structure. The chute having a C-shaped portion above the magazine loading portion that precludes the cartridges from changing their proper directional orientation. The setting mechanism receives cartridges on a rotating wheel with rotating insertion lobes and cartridge receiving voids between adjacent lobes. The cartridges drop into a cartridge receiving void, and are urged into the magazine by a rotating lobe.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Paul R. Fischer, William Hemeyer
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Patent number: 11609077Abstract: A cartridge that generates higher than typical chamber pressures has an enhanced means of primer retention for retaining the primer in the primer recess of the casing. The means may be a lip folded onto a conical surface, a annular groove to receive deformed primer wall portion material upon detonation, a concavity in the rearward facing wall of the primer, a check valve in the flash tube to inhibit propellant gases from reaching the primer recess, or specifically configured primers with a greater length than diameter and with greater wall thicknesses.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Bryan Peterson, Jared Kutney, Joel L. Sandstrom
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Patent number: 11592678Abstract: A system, method, and device for configuring an optical aiming device for ballistic drop compensation (BDC). The optical aiming device can include a housing with a reticle pane defining a reticle display field viewable by a user and indicating a zero point, the housing further including a plurality of axially spaced lenses and defining an optical path therethrough. In various embodiments the system includes a display device configured to project an image generated from a display, a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The computer readable data storage medium can include instructions executable by the processor to receive a first set of ballistics input data indicating a first type of ammunition, determine a BDC pattern including at least two holdover marks corresponding to at least two ranges for the first type of ammunition, and project the BDC pattern onto the reticle display field.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jacob C. VanBecelaere, Alejandro Chavez
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Patent number: D977055Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Shawn Fitzsimonds, Justin A. Carbone, Jared Kutney, Joel J. Foley, Lawrence P. Head
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Patent number: D991389Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Troy E. Lance, Robert J. Meinert, Paul N. Smith, Clif Hampel
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Patent number: D996961Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Troy E. Lance, Oscar C. Woods, Daniel D. Sereday, Christopher J. Michael
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Patent number: D1002186Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Christopher J. Michael, Daniel D. Sereday
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Patent number: D1010052Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: VISTA OUTDOOR OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Raymon Li, William Hemeyer, Monte N. Koenigs, Jeremy Manning
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Patent number: D1010309Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Troy E. Lance, Oscar C. Woods, Daniel D. Sereday, Christopher J. Michael
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Patent number: D1022789Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Troy E. Lance, Oscar C. Woods, Daniel D. Sereday, Christopher J. Michael
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Patent number: D1023559Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Daniel D. Sereday, Troy E. Lance, Christopher J. Michael, Paul N. Smith, Justin Hoffman
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Patent number: D1023829Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Vista Outdoor Operations LLCInventors: Paul N. Smith, Troy E. Lance, Oscar C. Woods, Daniel D. Sereday, Christopher J. Michael