Patents Examined by Michelle Clement
  • Patent number: 12710247
    Abstract: A firearm grip has an elongated body having an upper end having an upper attachment facility configured to attach to a firearm, the elongated body having an opposed lower end having a second attachment facility, a palm rest element having a base element having a third attachment facility configured to removably connect to the second attachment facility, the palm rest having a palm support element connected to the base element, and the palm support element defining a central aperture receiving the base element and having an upper surface encompassing the base element. The palm support element may be pivotally connected to the base element. The palm support element may be connected to pivot about a pivot axis transverse to a major plane of the firearm. The pivot axis may be at a level below the opposed lower end of the elongated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: CARACAL INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Palmer, Konstantin Nedev, Naser Ali Alomaira
  • Patent number: 12710251
    Abstract: A sight and accessory mount assembly for a firearm having a rail includes a sight mount configured to carry a sight, and an accessory mount configured to carry an accessory. The accessory mount extends rearwardly from, and is pivotally connected to, the sight mount when the sight and accessory mount is attached to the firearm rail. The accessory mount is rotatable between a first end position and a second end position relative to the first sight mount, wherein in the first end position the accessory mount and an accessory that may be carried by the accessory mount are aligned with the sight mount and a sight that may be carried by the sight mount, and in the second end position the accessory mount and an accessory that may be carried by the accessory mount are pivoted away from the sight mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Spuhr i Dalby AB
    Inventor: Håkan Spuhr
  • Patent number: 12704357
    Abstract: A mounting system for securing a viewing optic to a firearm utilizes an oblong dovetail connection component having a first end, a second end, and a contoured perimeter forming a dovetail profile. The viewing optic has a bottom surface comprising a mortise slot open at a first end to receive the oblong dovetail connection component and closed at a second end, the viewing optic further comprising a fastening area on a side of the viewing optic, the fastening area having a first securing structure. A fastening element having a second securing structure, wherein the first and second securing structures correspond to one another and facilitate securing the fastening element to the fastening area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Sheltered Wings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rosen, Seth Toy
  • Patent number: 12704339
    Abstract: A sear assembly for a weapon, the weapon comprising a hammer adapted to contact with the sear assembly and a trigger disconnected from the sear assembly, the sear assembly comprises a sear for mechanically engaging a sear surface on the hammer, a lever mechanically coupled by one end to the sear, the lever comprising a contact surface that causes the rotation of the sear, an actuator that actuates the lever by means of a cam, and a trigger sensor that is configured to determine if the trigger is pulled. In this regard, the trigger sensor is a coil. The sear assembly comprises a firing state and a safe state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Rade Tecnologías, S.L.
    Inventors: Raúl Delgado Acarreta, Diego Ibáñez Martínez, Lucas Serrano Portilla, Diego Lorente Algora
  • Patent number: 12693104
    Abstract: Disclosed is an emergency rescue shaped charge cutting device with life detection function including a life detection device and a shaped charge cutting device body. The life detection device body is arranged on the inner or outer side of the shaped charge cutting device body. The shaped charge cutting device body includes a protective cover, a shaped charge cutting rope and a fuze system. The shaped charge cutting rope is embedded in the front side of the protective cover, and the detonating end of the fuze system penetrates into the interior of the protective cover from the rear side of the protective cover to be connected to the shaped charge cutting rope. Accordingly, the life detection device may be combined with the shaped charge cutting device to detect living beings and achieve precise blasting, thereby coordinating operation of the two devices and improving rescue efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaoguang Zhou, Yongsheng Jia, Zhi Li, Yingkang Yao, Jinshan Sun, Quanmin Xie, Xiang Chen, Shaoyan Liu, Lijian Li
  • Patent number: 12693102
    Abstract: An unexploded ordnance (UXO) mitigation device of the present invention includes an energy-focusing guide formed with deflagration chamber, and an upper housing connected to the energy-focusing guide. The upper housing is formed with an opening and a tapered void, so that the opening merges into the tapered void, and the tapered void merges into the deflagration chamber. An initiator is inserted into the opening and an energetic charge is placed into the tapered void in contact with the initiator. A snorkel can be attached to the upper housing to establish a transient chamber, which allows for complete detonation of the energetic charge. The complete detonation causes conversion of gas in the deflagration chamber to ionize into a plasma having a wave velocity sufficient for the plasma to deflagrate the UXO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John Short, Tim White, Robert Bruner, Christian Jewell, Patrick Van Dam, Daniel McCarthy, Gary Evans, Hugh Burrell, Christopher Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 12687363
    Abstract: A firearm compensator includes an upper section comprising a lower section. The upper section has vents and a muzzle. The lower section, connected to the upper section, includes attachment ports. A mount is removably attached to the firearm compensator and includes a platform and one or more support. The platform includes one or more coupling points. One or more supports are attached to the platform. The one or more supports include one or more coupling points removably attached to the one or more attachment ports of the firearm compressor. A system includes a firearm compensator and a thumb rest. The thumb includes an arm comprising a stage, and one or more arm junction points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Impact, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Askerlund, Tavin Williams
  • Patent number: 12674635
    Abstract: A pistol comprising of a frame, a slide operable to reciprocate with respect to the frame, a barrel connected to the slide, with a cylinder defining a plurality of chambers connected to the slide to reciprocate with the slide, and operable to rotate with respect to the slide. The frame defines an ammunition compartment including an upper most ammunition position. The cylinder has a first chamber registered with the barrel, and a second chamber registered with the upper most ammunition position, such that in response to a cartridge in the first chamber discharging, the slide reciprocates to a recoil position to eject the cartridge case and to cause the upper most cartridge to enter the second chamber. In response to return of the slide to battery, the cylinder rotates to register the second chamber and cartridge, to alignment with the barrel for subsequent discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Inventor: Craig Spurgeon Beshore
  • Patent number: 12656075
    Abstract: Provided is a firearm noise suppressor having a baffle chamber unit with at least one dimpled recess on an outer surface thereof. An identification band with identifying indicia thereon is placed on the baffle chamber unit over the at least one dimpled recess, and an area of the band is deformed into the dimpled recess to prevent the removal of the band without a machining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Summit Sound Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Karl R. Edminster, Stephen A. Piche
  • Patent number: 12650283
    Abstract: A firearm accessory mounted to a firearm accessory rail and allowing adjustment of the accessory relative to the firearm accessory rail includes an indexing member having a tab structured to engage with one of the series of slots of the firearm accessory rail, and having two or more indexing slots, the two or more indexing slots spaced apart from one another at a distance less than the regular pitch interval of the accessory rail, and a single clamp having a crossmember structured to engage with one of the two or more indexing slots, the single clamp structured to simultaneously secure the accessory and the indexing member to the firearm accessory rail in a single clamping action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: SIG SAUER, INC.
    Inventor: Michael K. Morrison
  • Patent number: 12644661
    Abstract: A firearm operating system includes a housing, a central pivoting member disposed within the housing, a trigger including a portion disposed within the housing and a portion extending outside the housing such that the portion of the trigger within the housing includes a hole and at least one finger that extends in a first direction from the hole. Due to movement of the trigger, the at least one finger presses against the central pivoting member to cause the central pivoting member to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Inventors: James Matthew Underwood, Larry Cullen Underwood
  • Patent number: 12638280
    Abstract: Unmanned systems, and primarily vehicles, and in most embodiments unmanned aerial systems (UAS), as well as novel guided and unguided munitions are presented herein. to the two combine to present unmanned weaponized systems that not only carry weapons functionality, but allow for advanced observation and reconnaissance. These unmanned systems are largely directed toward military applications where the weaponized unmanned system may be forward deployed to allow human warfighters to remain at long range distances from the potential targets, and to provide surveillance, target identification and tracking, general reconnaissance information, and the like, while also providing weaponized attack capabilities. The unmanned systems may, in some embodiments, include advanced command and control capabilities for communication between the system and the remote, rear-positioned warfighter, and between separate elements of the unmanned system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Orbital Reseach Inc
    Inventors: Frederick J Lisy, Scott Suren, Emanuel Surunis, Edward J Rapp, Douglas Russell, Nevo Ziv, Michael Thompson, Anthony Opperman
  • Patent number: 12638256
    Abstract: A receiver assembly for a breaching tool has an upper receiver with female fittings in the form of side flanges at the front and back that connect to the lower receiver's male fittings in the form of a front center post and back sidewalls. The post fits between the front side flanges and the back sidewalls fit between the back side flanges. Apertures in the front side flanges are aligned with an aperture in the center post, and apertures in the back sidewalls align with the back side flanges, and takedown pins extend through the aligned apertures. The flanges can include cutback angles which engage with a front riser in the lower receiver's sidewalls and with rear bosses extending outward from the lower receivers sidewalls. A protrusion in the upper receiver's magazine well only allows a magazine with a notch at its top, front end to engage with the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Inventor: Jeremy Michael Sanders
  • Patent number: 12638271
    Abstract: A weapon attachment riser system for a weapon includes a riser assembly including a base housing, which defines an interior compartment, and a housing cover secured to the base housing. The base housing is configured to be detachably secured to a powered weapon accessory interface on the weapon and the housing cover is configured to be detachably secured to an accessory device. A circuit assembly includes a flexible circuit substrate disposed within the interior compartment. The circuit assembly includes a first electrical connector configured to detachably engage a complementary weapon rail interface port on the powered weapon accessory interface through an aligned opening in the housing base and a second electrical connector configured to detachably engage a complementary accessory interface port on the accessory device through an aligned opening in the housing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Wilcox Industries Corp.
    Inventors: James W. Teetzel, Joshua R. Beaulieu
  • Patent number: 12638266
    Abstract: An air gun assembly includes a gun tube and a pressure tube assembly. The gun tube defines a first aperture. The pressure tube assembly includes a fill block and a cylinder coupled to each other. The fill block defines a second aperture and the cylinder defines a chamber configured to contain compressed gas. The air gun assembly includes a pin disposed through the first aperture and the second aperture to couple together the fill block and the gun tube. The pin defines a channel. The air gun assembly also includes a valve assembly attached to the pin and at least partially disposed inside of the channel. The valve assembly is configured to selectively allow fluid communication into the chamber via the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Air Venturi Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Gore
  • Patent number: 12631429
    Abstract: A protective shield comprises a shield body. The shield body comprises a shield panel having a first and second face defining a threat side in a threat direction and a protected side in a protected direction opposite the threat side and threat direction, respectively, and having opposite panel edges and an edging covering at least part of the panel edges. The shield body further comprises connectors for mounting, in particular removably mounting, one or more accessories to the shield body on the threat side. At least some of the connectors are arranged on the threat side and/or at least one of exposed and exposable on the threat side, and at least partly accommodated in the edging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: POINTMAN ARMOR CONCEPTS B.V.
    Inventor: Abraham Alexander Frederic Oostvogel
  • Patent number: 12631093
    Abstract: One example apparatus includes a shaped charge, and an overmold that includes one or more layers surrounding a portion of the shaped charge. The overmold may contact, and conform to, a case within which the shaped charge is received, and the overmold may further contact, and conform to, a cartridge wall within which the shaped charge and the overmold are positioned. An electrical or electronic component may be partly embedded in the overmold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Defiant Precision Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cullen Craig Keyes, Ian Graham Janke, Lawrence Gene Griffin
  • Patent number: 12624915
    Abstract: A suppression device includes a body including an outermost external surface of the suppression device, a first end, and a second end; a core configured to be inserted into the body and including a baffle; and a bore extending completely through and along a longitudinal axis of the suppression device, wherein porosity is a fraction of a volume of pores per volume of mass in a material of the suppression device, a structure of the pores is not random, and the porosity of a portion of the core including the baffle is different than the porosity of a portion of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Centre Firearms Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ryder Washburn, III, Michael Berkeypile
  • Patent number: 12624925
    Abstract: A scope ring for attaching a rifle scope to a mounting rail of an armament includes a lower component that is attached onto the mounting rail and an upper component that is fastened to the lower component to define and extend along an outer perimeter of a scope ring through-hole that receives and holds the scope. The upper component member extends at least one hundred eighty (180) degrees along the perimeter but is constructed to enable a scope to be received into the scope ring or be removed from the scope ring if the scope ring extends more than one hundred eighty (180) degrees to present a slimmer profile. The upper component can be attached to different compatible lower components that enable the scope ring to define different scope ring heights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Berry Mtn., Inc.
    Inventor: Jarrod Burk Major
  • Patent number: 12618631
    Abstract: A suppressor assembly is disclosed. The suppressor can comprise an outer tube defining a barrel axis, a first endcap configured to couple to a barrel of a firearm at a first end of the outer tube, and a spacer assembly in the outer tube. The spacer assembly can be positioned and/or captured between the first endcap and an exit side of the outer tube. The spacer assembly can comprise a plurality of spacers comprising a plurality of small and large diameter baffles oriented in different desirable positions within the spacer assembly. The baffles and spacers can be constructed from different materials so the weight of the baffles are greater than the weight of the spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Shaw Armament Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan David Shaw, Joseph Curtis Jones