Patents Examined by John Cooper
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Patent number: 11965716Abstract: A landmine, unexploded ordnance (UEO) or improvised explosive device (IED) detection and destruction system which uses ground penetrating (GPR) radar to detect and guide a ballistic weapon to destroy it. The positions of which are also visually communicated through smart helmets or headgear having heads up display visors worn by the personnel, soldiers, combatants or any endangered persons in the vicinity.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: JJ1 Holdings Pty LtdInventor: Jeanette Mary Jones
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Patent number: 11959714Abstract: A method of assembling a bolt handle to a bolt assembly of a firearm includes inserting the bolt handle through a handle opening defined by a bolt body. A distal end of the bolt handle is inserted through the handle opening until the distal end extends past an outer perimeter of the bolt body. At least a portion of a bolt shroud is inserted through a first portion of an aperture defined by the bolt handle. A force is applied to the bolt shroud while the bolt handle is retracted within the handle opening of the bolt body so that the bolt shroud is positioned within a second portion of the aperture. The bolt shroud is held in connection with the bolt handle when the bolt shroud is positioned within the second portion of the aperture to secure the bolt handle to the bolt body.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Springfield, Inc.Inventors: Nick Ballard, Charles David Williams, Christopher Martin Baumbach
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Patent number: 11959727Abstract: A firearm mounting plate assembly is provided. The firearm mounting plate assembly includes a firearm slide with a first side, a second side, and a top side. A recess defined by a first slide wall and a recess base surface is disposed on the firearm slide top side. The recess includes a rib. The firearm mounting plate assembly includes a mounting plate with a top surface, a bottom surface, a front side, and a rear side. The mounting plate includes one or more bosses. The mounting plate is configured to secure within the recess of the firearm slide.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Agency Arms LLCInventors: Max Yedor, Eric Chang
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Patent number: 11953283Abstract: A firearm is provided comprising a body which defines a magazine well. The well has a rear wall and a first side wall integrated with the body. A front wall is detachable from the body and in part defining the well. Further a second side wall is detachable from the body and in part defining the well.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Shannon Howard McCall
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Patent number: 11953277Abstract: A firing control system with multiple safeties is disclosed. It comprises a base, a return spring, a firing pin releaser, and a trigger connecting bar. The trigger connecting bar is connected with the trigger of the pistol and has a firing safety portion with a T shape. The design of the firing safety portion with a limit protrusion portion of the firing pin releaser of the present invention form a safety mechanism for unintentional discharge of the pistol, which improves the problem that the existing improved products are easy to cause the pistol to fire under an unfired state.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: FORMOSAN ARSENAL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Shu Hui Tseng
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Patent number: 11946709Abstract: Firearms including a slide, an ejector and an extractor assembly, which extractor assembly includes at least one stirrup-shaped extractor, a plunger and a biasing element. Production of such firearms is easier, and their assembly and/or disassembly is simpler, where the plunger includes a plunger body and a plunger extension, a frame is provided for mounting the biasing element and at least the plunger body, the slide includes a receiving groove for the frame, and the slide includes a maintenance bore which, in the installed state, penetrates the slide from below in the direction of the receiving groove and is provided in the region of the plunger body.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Martin Mortsch, Philipp Kogler
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Patent number: 11940246Abstract: A firearm sight mounting plate assembly for a firearm is provided. The firearm sight mounting plate assembly includes a mounting plate. The mounting plate having a first area supporting an iron sight, and the mounting plate having a second area supporting an optic. The first area is different from the second area.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Agency Arms, LLCInventors: Randy Paul Niswander, Michael Lee Parks
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Patent number: 11940259Abstract: Shot projectiles are disclosed that are not completely spherical. The shot has an equatorial ring, top and bottom poles, and one or more sections extending between the ring and the respective poles. The ring defines a vertical height relative to an overall diameter of the projectile. The one or more sections provide flat, concave, or convex surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Federal Cartridge CompanyInventors: Matthew S. Schroeder, Adam J. Moser, Drew L. Goodlin, Erik K. Carlson
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Patent number: 11933573Abstract: A firearm shot tracking system including a camera assembly attached with a firearm assembly and a remote device assembly. The camera assembly includes a camera which may allow to record and track ballistic information by Bluetooth access. The firearm assembly includes a firearm which may be the housing for the camera which is placed on a bellow portion thereof to allow using the firearm and camera at once improving shooting abilities. The remote device assembly includes a remote device which can be monitored and display the information recorded by the camera. The camera is attached to the firearm to allow an easily use thereof while shooting and recording.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventor: Anthony Vines
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Patent number: 11933583Abstract: A firearm mounting plate assembly is provided. The firearm mounting plate assembly includes a firearm slide with a first side, a second side, and a top side. A recess defined by a first slide wall, a second slide wall, and a recess base surface is disposed on the firearm slide top side. The recess includes a rib, a slot, and an ejector projection. The firearm mounting plate assembly includes a mounting plate with a top surface, a bottom surface, a front side, and a rear side. An ejector notch and a channel is disposed along the bottom surface. The mounting plate includes a stud, and one or more bosses. The mounting plate is configured to secure within the recess of the firearm slide.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: AGENCY ARMS, LLCInventors: Randy Paul Niswander, Michael Lee Parks
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Patent number: 11933593Abstract: Devices and methods for shotshell cartridges, particularly shotshell cartridges with biodegradable components. One or more of the casing, shot wad, spacer, and powder wad may be formed of biodegradable materials. A biodegradable shot wad is manufactured of cellulosic fibers and wax to provide obturation and gas seal properties at high pressures with high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Federal Cartridge CompanyInventors: Alex R. Schmieg, Robert A. Strange, Anthony C. Stockey, Steven P. Schommer, Adam J. Moser
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Patent number: 11920897Abstract: This invention provides a universal tactical light fixing mechanism which includes a base, a pull rod and a lock block; the pull rod passes through the base and one end thereof is disposed inside the base; the base is provided with a mounting slot for mounting a tactical light; the pull rod is provided with a handle at one end thereof which is distant from the base for controlling the pull rod to move up and down; the handle is rotatably connected with the pull rod; the base is connected with a first screw; the lock block cooperates with the first screw to provide clamping force; the lock block is provided with a gear; the pull rod has a side surface which is provided with slots that match protruding teeth on the gear; the gear is disposed inside the base and engaged with the side surface of the pull rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: Ziyang Zhou
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Patent number: 11912635Abstract: Explosive compositions for use in high temperature, reactive ground, or both, are disclosed. The explosive compositions can include an emulsion with a continuous organic fuel phase and a discontinuous oxidizer phase. The oxidizer phase can include one or more Group I or Group II nitrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific Pty LimitedInventors: Jade Pettersen, Emma McPhail, Jeff Gore
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Patent number: 11913743Abstract: A pistol may include a firing device arranged in a slide. The firing device includes a strikerhaving a striker head, characterized in that the device has at least two parallel striker springs arranged laterally on the side of the striker axis and bearing on at least two bearing surfaces arranged perpendicularly to the axis of the striker.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: FN HERSTAL S.A.Inventors: Laurent Balhan, Dorian Delvaux
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Patent number: 11906276Abstract: A wad (4, 9) for a shotgun cartridge (20) is described. The wad (4, 9) comprises a cup-shaped member (4) and a separation member (9) located inside the cup-shaped member (4) adjacent a base of the cup-shaped member (4). The cup-shaped member (4) and the separation member (9) each comprise at least one biodegradable fibrous material.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Graham Richard McLeod
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Patent number: 11898814Abstract: There is disclosed herein systems, methods and apparatus relating to a firearm with an operating system for electronically firing the firearm to fire projectiles from the firearm. The operating system includes an electronic firing system with a switch that is actuated by pulling the trigger of the firearm.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Benjamin Alicea, Jr.
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Patent number: 11898833Abstract: A case jacket made of a felted, in particular combustible fibrous material, comprising a cylindrical case jacket portion and a calotte-shaped case bottom which is connected to an end of the cylindrical case jacket portion, wherein the bottom-side end of the case jacket portion has a first inside diameter and a first outside diameter, and wherein the case bottom has an annular connecting edge towards the case jacket portion, which has a second inside diameter that is smaller than the first inside diameter, and a second outside diameter which is smaller than the second outside diameter, includes a conical connecting portion whose one end has the first inside diameter and the first outside diameter and is connected to the bottom-side end of the case jacket portion, and whose other end has the second inside diameter and the second outside diameter and is connected to the connecting edge of the case bottom, wherein the angle of inclination of the inner wall and the angle of inclination of the outer wall of the conType: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Nitrochemie Aschau GmbH, Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbHInventors: Jens Oltmanns, Ulrich Focken, Dirk Brachmann, Stephan Thiesen, Michael Vagedes, Luca Linus Schnackenberg
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Patent number: 11892258Abstract: A firearm synchronized discharge device for facilitating a synchronized discharge of two or more firearms are described together with associated systems, firearms and methods. The device includes an actuator for engaging with a movable trigger of a first firearm, a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a force applied to the trigger and a first controller operatively coupled to the sensor and to the actuator. The actuator is configurable between a first configuration that prevents movement of the trigger toward a firearm-discharge position of the trigger, and a second configuration that permits movement of the trigger toward the firearm-discharge position of the trigger. When the force meets a criterion and the one or more other firearms are ready for discharge, the actuator is caused to transition from the first configuration to the second configuration to permit actuation of the trigger and discharge of the firearm.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TRIGGER SYNC INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventor: Robert Craig McCloskey
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Patent number: 11885592Abstract: An optical sight and system. The optical sight includes a housing including a base. A first support and a and a second support extend from the base. A top support extends between the first support and the second support. The top support extends over an optical element and includes a surface adjacent to the optical element. The top support of the housing defines at least one opening extending above a portion of the optical element. The optical element is supported by the housing between the base, the first support, and the second support.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: AXIAL INNOVATION LLCInventors: Coleby P. Brewer, Brian D. Owens
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Patent number: 11879712Abstract: A fired cartridge case collector includes a base having a collection post. The collection post of the base is configured to collect and suspend a fired cartridge case without causing contact to an exterior surface of the fired cartridge case. The fired cartridge case collector also includes a protective envelope having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein the first end of the protective envelope is configured to be removably secured to the base. The protective envelope is configured to prevent contact between an interior surface of the protective envelope and the exterior surface of the fired cartridge case while the protective envelope is removably secured to the base. The fired cartridge case collector permits individual collection, packaging, and non-contact storage of fired gun cartridge cases thereby preserving any DNA or other evidence that may be present.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Richard B. Moore, David F Whittaker, Kevin S Wallace, Todd W Bille, Gregory A Peiffer, Steven M Weitz