Patents Examined by Derrick R Morgan
  • Patent number: 12270623
    Abstract: There is herein described a magazine ammunition unloader for unloading ammunitions from a magazine. An embodiment of the magazine ammunition unloader comprises a body comprising a loading conduit adapted to receive the magazine, a wheel housing connected to the loading conduit, and an ejecting conduit connected to the loading conduit. This embodiment further comprises a wheel assembly housed in the wheel housing, the wheel housing being adapted to be driven to pivot into the wheel housing about a pivot axis, the wheel assembly comprising a wheel having at a periphery teeth adapted to enter the loading conduit, and to push ammunitions from the magazine into the ejecting conduit. According to an embodiment, it further comprises member assembly adapted to enter the loading conduit, and to push above ammunitions, thereby releasing pressure over the first ammunition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: François Lamarche
  • Patent number: 12264888
    Abstract: A trigger unit for a firearm, including a rotatable trigger lever in which the trigger lever has a trigger bar which lies below the trigger axis and is moved when the trigger bar is actuated against a barrel direction, and a fire-control/safety selector for selecting at least one “safe” and one “fire” position, where a locking lever rotatably mounted about a locking lever axis is arranged in the trigger unit and is biased in a circumferential direction by a locking lever spring, and that the locking lever axis, when viewed in the barrel direction, is arranged behind the trigger axis, and the locking lever is designed to releasable fix the fire-control/safety selector in a selectable position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Werdnig, Karl Markut
  • Patent number: 12259206
    Abstract: A locking block is adapted to be mounted in a gun. The gun has a bias spring having a bias spring arm. The locking block includes two side bodies and a connecting body. The connecting body is connected between the two side bodies and has a bottom surface. The connecting body is formed with at least one positioning groove recessed upward from the bottom surface for catching the bias spring arm of the bias spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Chen-Hung Tai, Yong-Fong Huang, Hwa-Nung Lee, Yo-Lun Chang
  • Patent number: 12259207
    Abstract: An improved recoil reduction system comprises a forward body, a friction spring, a rear body, a bolt, and, optionally, a bumper. When in forward battery, the said friction spring is compressed to a preloaded operating point by the bolt. In embodiments, when a weapon equipped with the improved recoil reduction system is fired, the front body is impacted by the bolt carrier group of the weapon and the rear body moves aft and strikes the rear of the shoulder stock of the weapon, compressing the friction spring. During compression, the tapered mating surfaces of the friction spring generate friction and thereby dissipate the energy generated from firing the weapon in the form of heat, thus reducing the felt recoil of the weapon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Robert Duane Hill
  • Patent number: 12259209
    Abstract: This application discloses a three-mode toy gun which comprises a gun shell, a firing cylinder assembly, a transmission gear train, a mating member and a trigger mechanism. An electric drive mechanism comprises a motor and a power supply cable having a first switch and a second switch connected in series. The mating member is movably provided in the gun shell, and the mating member has a first position, a second position and a third position. The trigger mechanism is arranged in the gun shell, and the trigger mechanism has a trigger and a convex bar. The three-mode toy gun is provided with a single-action mode, an automatic mode and a manual mode by means of mating arrangement of the structural members, which provides players with three use experiences and satisfies the preferences of different players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BEAUTIFUL TOYS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lijun Ren
  • Patent number: 12247799
    Abstract: A barrel system for a paintball gun allows a user to quickly change the magna porting size of the barrel without the need to switch the barrel. A peg is located on an outer surface of the barrel as is a first port. A barrel tip has a second port aligned with a first channel and a third port of a different size relative to the second port, the third port aligned with a second channel. The barrel is received within the barrel tip so that the peg is either received within the first channel and thereby overlaying the second port with the first port, or the peg is received within the second channel and thereby overlaying the third port with the first port. An additional of port of yet another size as well as a null port may be provided, each with its own aligned channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Daniel Spence
  • Patent number: 12241717
    Abstract: A buttstock assembly configured to work in conjunction with a compact buffer assembly consisting of a buffer tube, spring and bolt carrier with an integral buffer is provided. The buttstock assembly, buffer tube and bolt carrier are configured to work with AR15/M16 type firearms and their derivatives. By incorporating the buffer onto the bolt carrier, which is used in conjunction with a buffer tube of reduced length, the overall length of the host firearm is reduced by approximately 3.2 inches. No permanent modification need be made to the host firearm in order to utilize the compact buffer assembly and buttstock assembly disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LWRC International LLC
    Inventor: Jesus S. Gomez
  • Patent number: 12241707
    Abstract: A training magazine has a body configured to be removably received in the magazine well, a motor connected to the body and having a rotating shaft, an actuator operably engaged to the reciprocating action element, and operable to reciprocate the reciprocating action element, a linkage interconnecting the motor to the actuator, the linkage including a rotor operably connected to the rotating shaft and operable to rotate in response to rotation of the rotating shaft, and a link connected to the body and operably connected to reciprocate in response to rotation of the rotor to generate reciprocation of the actuator. The link is pivotally connected to the body at a first portion comprising a first end and a second portion is a second end opposite the first end. The rotor may operably engage the link at an intermediate position between the first and second ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MANTIS TECH, LLC
    Inventors: Ammon Allgaier, Austin Allgaier, Louis Van Blarigan
  • Patent number: 12235088
    Abstract: Described is a shaped charge warhead comprising an axially symmetric fragmentation casing designed to define a containment space and having in a base portion a casting hole for the explosive, a detonator housed in the casting hole and a conical liner of the shaped charge positioned inside the containment space. The casing and the conical or hemispherical liner, with a variable thickness, if necessary, are made in a single piece. The casing extends along a respective axis of extension in such a way as to also define a standoff of the charged warhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TECHDYN ENGINEERING SOCIETA' A RESPONSABILITA' LIMITATA—AZIENDA SPIN-OFF ACCADEMICO DELL'UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI CASSINO
    Inventors: Nicola Bonora, Gianluca Iannitti, Andrew Ruggiero, Gabriel Testa
  • Patent number: 12235080
    Abstract: A cassette for deploying one or more entangling projectiles includes a pair of sockets, each socket being in fluid communication with a pressure source. An entangling projectile includes a pair of anchors connected by a tether, each of the pair of anchors being positionable within one of the sockets and the tether being carried by the cassette. Each socket carries a slidable piston positionable in a respective socket between an entangling projectile and the pressure source such that each slidable piston is propelled along a respective socket in response to a pressure wave generated by the pressure source to thereby expel the anchor from the socket. Each of a pair of retaining clips is engageable with an anchor and with a socket to aid in retaining the respective anchor in the respective socket prior to generation of the pressure wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Wrap Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Milan Cerovic, David Richter, Dubravko Zekanovic
  • Patent number: 12235077
    Abstract: A device includes a prime illuminator to throw light on an object. The prime illuminator defines a center of throw of the light, and luminescent dispersion from the light. The device is configured to be attached to a bottom of a magazine. The magazine with the device is configured to be inserted in a magazine insert of a firearm. The center throw of light from the prime illuminator is configured to be vertically lower from a bore axis that extends longitudinally through a geometric center of a muzzle of the firearm. Further, the luminescent dispersion from the prime illuminator is configured to be pointing towards the object, and the muzzle of the firearm is configured to be directed away from the object, when the firearm is configured to be raised in a high ready position or in a compressed high ready position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Frank Hughes, Britton R Lentz
  • Patent number: 12215957
    Abstract: The present invention surrounds a payload for use as a projectile for disabling and neutralizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) threats and the like. The payload uses a central projectile and one or more satellite projectiles tethered to central projectile. The satellite projectiles provide entangling elements. The satellite projectiles are configured to expand outward from the central projectile after firing to provide an entangling projectile system wherein any object or individual within the entangling zone of the projectile system can be ensnared and neutralized through the entangling action of the projectile system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ascendance International, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Bigelow, Cory Michalec, Joseph Garst
  • Patent number: 12215944
    Abstract: Modular systems including a trigger unit for a firearm, wherein the trigger unit is designed as a drop-in trigger unit to complement a trigger pocket of the lower receiver of the firearm, and that the trigger pocket is received by the trigger housing, preferably completely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Werdnig
  • Patent number: 12209837
    Abstract: An automatically ejecting magazine device includes an ammunition magazine which is substantially hollow for receiving ammunition for a firearm. A follower is movably disposed within the ammunition magazine to support ammunition for the firearm and a magnet is attached to the follower. A door is hingedly attached to the ammunition magazine and the door has a recess which is engaged by a magazine release of the firearm to retain the ammunition magazine in the firearm. The magnet urges the door into a disengaged position such that the recess is not accessible to the magazine release. In this way the ammunition magazine can drop out of the firearm when the last round of ammunition is fed into the firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Madden
  • Patent number: 12209850
    Abstract: A dummy ammo comprises a counterweight component and a contour component, wherein the counterweight component comprises at least one counterweight block, and the contour component comprises at least one cartridge shell; the cartridge shell is provided with at least one inner wall, and the inner wall defines at least one cavity; the counterweight block is arranged in the cavity; when the counterweight block is fixed, the dummy ammo has a weight distribution close to that of a live ammo, so that the problem of being difficult to eject during training can be solved, and the experience is better when being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Xin'an Xiao
  • Patent number: 12209831
    Abstract: An automatic circulation shooting mechanism includes a gun body assembly, a gun barrel assembly, a bolt assembly, a recoil spring assembly, a triggering assembly, and a cartridge feeding assembly. Regarding the gun body assembly, a barrel fixing cap can separate from a barrel frame, so the gun barrel assembly mounted in the barrel frame can be replaced. The gun barrel assembly includes two barrel spring fixing seats disposed on a barrel, a barrel spring therebetween and a barrel extension. The barrel extension and a breech bolt of the bolt assembly are engaged for locking while shooting to allow the barrel and the breech bolt to recoil together by a linear freedom motion and affect the barrel spring, a bolt spring of the bolt assembly, and the recoil spring assembly for absorbing, storing, and releasing energy, thereby buffering recoil force of the shooting efficiently and attaining an automatic circulation shooting effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Huai-Ku Sun
  • Patent number: 12203714
    Abstract: A firearm propulsion system for releasing a projectile from a firearm includes a firearm having a chamber, a barrel, and a firing pin with a primer. A supply port is passed through at least one of the barrel and the chamber so as to reach the interior. A control valve is in communication with the supply port and is configured to regulate the passage of pressurized gas into the at least one of the barrel and the chamber from the supply port. A sensor is included in the chamber and is configured to detect the location of the projectile passing through the chamber after firing the firearm. A control system communicates with the control valve and the sensor to selectively release pressurized gas into the chamber after firing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Eddie L Brooks
  • Patent number: 12196507
    Abstract: An artillery configured to propel a projectile, the artillery comprising a firing mechanism, a barrel, and a helical electromagnetic recoil mechanism. The firing mechanism fires the projectile in a first direction toward a target. The barrel has an open-ended bore that guides the projectile in the first direction. The helical electromagnetic counter recoil mechanism includes an electrical energy source, a stator, and a helical electromagnetic armature. The electrical energy source provides electrical energy when the firing mechanism fires the projectile. The stator and armature generate an electromagnetic force via the electrical energy. The helical electromagnetic armature moves in a second direction opposite the first direction via the electromagnetic force when the firing mechanism fires the projectile in the first direction to minimize recoil of the artillery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Seth D. Hartman
  • Patent number: 12196520
    Abstract: A spring for a firearm magazine includes a top attachment leg, a plurality of upper coils connected to the top attachment leg, a plurality of intermediate coils below the upper coils, and a bottom attachment leg below the plurality of intermediate coils. The upper coils are sized and shaped to nest within the intermediate coils when the spring is fully compressed, reducing the solid height of the spring. In some embodiments, at least two complete upper coils and/or at least two complete lower coils nest within intermediate coils. In one example, at least some coils have a rectangular coil shape. The spring can be configured for use in a handgun magazine or a rifle magazine, for example. A handgun magazine and a magazine components kit including the spring are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SIG SAUER, INC.
    Inventors: Derek A. Oaks, Adrian Thomele, Sean P. Toner, Jacqueline McNally
  • Patent number: 12196538
    Abstract: As described above, this new primer feed system is both accurate and consistent. The primer feed station begins by loading primers from the vendor packaging into the vibratory feed bowl via the primer chute. The bowl has an adjustable height polycarbonate guard that is inside the main safety polycarbonate doors and exits above the machine. The bowl then orients the primers open side up and discharges them into the primer track. Crimping can be done with 3 or 5 pins or a complete radial crimp. Previous versions of the crimp station on these crimping machines involved a pin mounted to the upper ram and a lower pin actuated by the lower ram. It was difficult to time and adjust properly for a consistent crimp. This new approach to crimping has proved much more reliable, accurate and easier to adjust. It still utilizes an upper pin mounted to the upper moving ram assembly but the lower pin is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Randy J. Jones, Jeff C. Hritcu