Patents Examined by Joshua E Freeman
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Patent number: 11761720Abstract: A rifle having a central weapon plane, comprising a barrel that has a barrel bore axis, a gas drive, a bolt carrier, a recoil spring unit and a charging handle unit arranged in front of the bolt carrier, wherein the charging handle unit comprises at least one handle, which is mounted on a slider element for rotation about pivot pins and is forcibly displaced about a pivot pin into its rest position by at least one handle spring, and the slider element is mounted in a carriage which is arranged axially in front of the bolt carrier and is movable in the axial direction. The rifle is characterized in that the at least one handle comprises an elongate hole for receiving the pivot pins and for the support by said pins.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Mario Kastrun
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Patent number: 11754356Abstract: Example apparatus are disclosed for a magazine for a self-loading firearm, the magazine comprising a magazine housing, and a magazine floor plate movably mounted to the magazine housing. The magazine floor plate is slidable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the magazine floor plate is pivotable relative to the magazine housing when in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Heckler & Koch GmbHInventor: Steffen Müller
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Patent number: 11757561Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for intercepting a target UAV by releasing a plurality of countermeasure (CM) objects in a projected path thereof to form a 3D countermeasure cloud. Pieces of flexible materials configured to become ensnared in the propellers of the target UAV or otherwise interfere with their ability to provide lift and thrust capabilities to the UAV. A UAV interception control system may track the target UAV and compute a location probability volume therefor using a modified Kalman filter to decide on a projected interception location and time.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Airshare, Inc.Inventor: Richard Jonathan Whittaker
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Patent number: 11754358Abstract: The present device is an electronically controlled safety system for use in firearms comprising a shape memory actuator configured to connect a mechanical locking interface to a trigger mechanism interface comprising a point of connection to a firearm's trigger mechanism. This shape memory actuator can be controlled by use of an authentication system comprising an RFID module and a control module. The user of the firearm can provide authorization to place the firearm in the armed position by placing an RFID tag having a certain activation code near the RFID module, which can then activate the shape memory actuator through the control module. When the mechanical locking interface is connected to the trigger mechanism interface a firearm's trigger mechanism is locked in place and the firearm is in a safe position and when it is not connected to the trigger mechanism it is in an armed position.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: FREE STATE FIREARMS, LLCInventor: G. Thomas Holland, II
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Patent number: 11747112Abstract: Sights of the present disclosure comprise a housing supporting an optical sighting element, such as one or more lenses or iron sights. A first lateral side of the housing has a laterally-extending protrusion and a lead-in portion forward of the laterally-extending portion. In some arrangements the lead-in portion is laterally-inward of an outermost surface of the laterally-extending protrusion and has a surface roughness of less than 50 ?m. In some instances, the laterally-extending protrusion has a width of at least 1 mm and the lead-in portion has a length of at least five times the width of the laterally-extending protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Springfield, Inc.Inventors: Dennis J. Reese, Stephen H. McKelvain, Nick Ballard, Peter J. Leach
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Patent number: 11740041Abstract: A buffer tube for a firearm can include a body defining an interior cavity for receiving a buffer spring, and a rail disposed on and/or formed from the outer surface of the body. The rail can include one or more pin holes configured to receive a pin of a stock to lock the stock in a position, and a trunk opening defined at an end of the rail forming a first rail sidewall and second rail sidewall configured to receive a trunk of an actuator. The first and/or second rail sidewalls can include a slot defined therethrough configured to receive a pin associated with the trunk of the actuator to linearly guide the actuator. The rail can include a slide bar channel defined through at least a portion of the rail and configured to allow a slide bar to slide therein relative to the one or more pin holes to urge a pin out of a respective pin hole and/or to block a pin from being received by the pin holes.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Vantac Technologies LLCInventor: Joede Thomas Vanek
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Patent number: 11740044Abstract: Provided is a method that includes determining a device geolocation based on a satellite signal received by a weapon-tracking device and receiving a sensor reading using a sensor attached to the weapon-tracking device, wherein the sensor is sensitive to a use of the weapon. The instructions include determining that a change in the sensor reading satisfies a change threshold and, in response to a determination that the change threshold is satisfied, transmitting device state data to a wireless signal receiver via a wireless signal, wherein the device state data comprises a device identifier and the device geolocation. The instructions further include storing the device identifier and the device geolocation in a data server in communication with the wireless signal receiver and transmitting a message based on the device identifier and device geolocation to a client from the data server.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: INPIXONInventors: Li Wang, Andrew Hamish Duncan, Patrick E. Bertagna, Richard Antonio Carranza Montenegro, Shirish Tangirala
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Patent number: 11733015Abstract: The present invention provides a two piece and a three piece primer insert for ammunition piece. Each of the individual pieces may be formed by punching, pressing, stamping, molding, milling, coining, or by additive manufacturing. The individual pieces may be joined by clinching, pressing welding soldering, sintering, adhesive gluing, staking, and iterative addition by forming one piece into another piece.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TRUE VELOCITY IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Lonnie Burrow, Christopher William Overton, Florian Herzog, Nimmy Mammoottil, Andrew Rosek
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Patent number: 11732989Abstract: An assembly is configured for retaining a muzzle accessory mounted on a firearm barrel or to a muzzle adapter on the barrel, where the muzzle accessory has a mount with female threads on an inside and male threads on an outside of the mount. The outside of the muzzle adapter has male threads and a bearing surface. A locking nut has inner female threads and an inside taper located proximally of the female threads. A locking ring has a tapered outside face configured to engage the inside taper of the locking nut and an inside face configured to engage the bearing surface. When assembled, the mount is threaded onto the muzzle adapter and the locking nut is threaded onto the accessory mount with the locking ring engaging the bearing surface of the muzzle adapter and the inside taper of the locking nut.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Sig Sauer, Inc.Inventors: Krzysztof J. Kras, Lindsay Lee Bunch
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Patent number: 11732995Abstract: Implementations of an accessory mount for a machine gun spade grip are provided. A machine gun spade grip includes twin handles that are disposed on opposite sides of, and adjacent to, a thumb pad trigger mechanism for a firearm, such as a machine gun. The accessory mount is attached to the upper arm of the spade grip, adjacent one of the twin handles. One or more control devices used to operate weapon-mounted electrical accessories can be attached to the accessory mount. An example accessory mount comprises: a bridge member having a top and a bottom, the top of the bridge member includes a mounting interface and the bottom of the bridge member includes a cutout adapted to receive a portion of a spade grip arm therein; and a clamp member removably attached to the bottom of the bridge member.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventor: Trent Zimmer
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Patent number: 11719924Abstract: A viewing optic has a housing having a front side containing an optical element, a rear side containing a rear cover, a left side, a right side, and top side. A solar panel control assembly with at least one solar panel is positioned on the top side. The viewing optic may be a miniature red dot sight, such as a closed red dot sight.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SHELTERED WINGS INC.Inventor: Rob Morell
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Patent number: 11719502Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement (A) for releasably securing a weapon (W). Said arrangement (A) comprises a fixed support member (10) and a locking member (20) spring loadedly and movably connected to the fixed support member (10) such that when the weapon (W) is pressed towards the locking member (20), the locking member (20) is moved relative to the support member (10) from a closed position to an open position so that said weapon (W) is allowed to be introduced through an opening (02) of the locking member (20) into a holding position of the locking member (20), and such that, when the weapon (W) is positioned in said holding position, the spring loaded locking member (20) is returned to said closed position by means of a spring force. Said arrangement may further comprise an actuator arranged for moving the locking member (20) against a spring force into said open position for allowing said weapon (W) to be released.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS HÄGGLUNDS AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Lars Holmberg, Bengt Wikman
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Patent number: 11719523Abstract: A detonator block for housing a detonator has a body configured to host the detonator; the body having a first end that is configured to be attached to a sub; the body having a second end, opposite to the first end, and configured to connect to a gun; and a printed circuit board located inside the body, the printed circuit board being electrically connected to the detonator. The body has a holder that is configured to hold the detonator inside the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: GEODYNAMICS, INC.Inventors: Terrell Saltarelli, John T Hardesty
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Patent number: 11719497Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting and displaying a number of rounds in a firearm magazine comprising a maximum number of N rounds. The magazine may comprise a follower, magnets on the follower, and <N magnetic-field-sensing sensors arranged along a path of the magnets when the follower moves along a length of the magazine, the sensors generating round count data based on a position of the one or more magnets relative to the <N magnetic-field-sensing sensors, and a first substantially flat antenna arranged on an inside of the magazine and configured to wirelessly transmit a round count indication to a second substantially flat antenna on the firearm, the round count indication based on the round count data, the second substantially flat antenna affixed to an inside of a magazine well of the firearm and mostly overlapping with the first substantially flat antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Magpul Industries Corp.Inventors: Erin Czarnecki, Jeffrey Holt, Michael Leighton, Donald McKelvey, Steven Dunbar, Timothy Eric Roberts, Nicholas Kielsmeier, Eric Chow
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Patent number: 11719512Abstract: The present application provides a remote-controlled gun, comprising a gun base, a gun body, an angle adjustment device, a camera, and a remote controller, wherein the angle adjustment device is connected with the gun body and the gun base, and configured for adjusting a pitch shooting angle of the gun body with respect to the gun base in a vertical plane and a left and right swing angle of the gun body with respect to the gun base in a horizontal plane; the camera is configured for monitoring a shooting target and a front sight of the gun body; the remote controller is connected with the camera and configured for displaying a monitoring image of the camera; and the remote controller is also connected with the angle adjustment device and configured for controlling the gun body to rotate with respect to the gun base until the front sight is aligned with the shooting target within a monitoring area; and the remote controller is also connected with the gun body, and configured for controlling the shooting of theType: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: China Intelligent Building & Energy Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Jiang, Xulai Jiang
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Patent number: 11713936Abstract: A fixed-to-tilted silencer adaptor for three-lug attachments enables the use of tilting barrel gun silencers or fixed non-moving barrel gun silencers with different guns of the same caliber. The present invention enables users to utilize a gun silencer with the desired gun even if the gun silencer does not match the design of the gun. To do so, the present invention may comprise a recoil booster and a three-lug adaptor. The recoil booster is designed to accommodate the movement of a tilting barrel while facilitating the connection between the gun silencer and the gun's barrel. The recoil booster also securely receives the three-lug adaptor to facilitate the quick attachment of the recoil booster to the gun's barrel. The three-lug adaptor is designed to enable the quick attachment of the recoil booster to the gun's barrel without interfering with the movement of the gun's barrel when connected to a tilted barrel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: LIRCES 3Inventors: Seth Alan Lowell, Daniel Reader
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Patent number: 11709036Abstract: An adjustment assembly for riflescopes and related methods are provided. In one example, an adjustment assembly includes a knob configured to rotate about an axis, a disc having a trace, a first sensor configured to measure a value relating to a particular portion of the trace, and a second sensor configured to sense complete revolutions of the knob about the axis. The riflescope also includes a processor configured to correlate the value with an angular displacement of the knob about the axis relative to a zero point.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: GUNWERKS, LLCInventors: Aaron Davidson, Haizhou Li, Mark Delz
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Patent number: 11702912Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a shaped charge liner including an apex end and a base end and defining a main liner axis that passes through the apex and base ends, the liner being rotationally symmetric about the main liner axis wherein the liner has discrete rotational symmetry about the main liner axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: QINETIQ LIMITEDInventors: Michael John Hinton, Philip Duncan Church, Richard Gordon Townsley, Peter John Gould
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Patent number: 11703304Abstract: The invention provides improved modular gun stocks and their methods of manufacture. Advantageously, gun stocks of the invention require fewer parts than conventional gun stocks. The lower stock supports of the improved modular gun stocks can be removed and replaced in multiple ways so that a variety of gun stocks can be created as desired. The invention also eliminates the undesirable rattling noise that modular gun stocks often have after assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Durkin Tactical, LLCInventor: Gary Hannah
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Patent number: 11703298Abstract: A rust prevention device for guns which includes a mounting case with a mounting space and a bullet-shaped rust prevention plug mounted in the mounting space is revealed. An outer diameter of the rust prevention plug is sized to fit in a bore or a magazine of the gun. A main body of the rust prevention plug which is a molded block made of porous adsorbents or volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs) is exposed outside the mounting case. Thereby the rust prevention device is loaded into the bore or magazine like a cartridge and the main body of the rust prevention plug is exposed to increase surface area in contact with air in the gun. The rust prevention plug has more contact with metal parts in the gun due to diffusion in air. Therefore, the gun is better protected against rust.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Inventor: Tsang-Hung Hsu