Abstract: The disclosure relates to tracking ownership of a firearm, and more particularly, to leasing and repossessing a firearm.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a firearm suppressor that diverts gas flow away from the firearm user and reduces the report of a fired projectile.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to tracking ownership of a firearm, and more particularly, to leasing and repossessing a firearm.

Abstract: A mount for firearm assembly and adjustment includes a firearm engagement portion having a hollow body with at least one recess for receiving a firearm buffer tube therein, and a support member configured to be secured to a support.

Abstract: A mount for firearm assembly and adjustment includes a firearm engagement portion having a hollow body with at least one recess for receiving a firearm buffer tube therein, and a support member configured to be secured to a support.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and product for directly producing a latent heat-bulkable yarn from the same polymer composition in the same spinning process. The self-crimping yarn is produced from polyethylene terephthalate compositions which are melt spun at high speeds to form a plurality of spin oriented filaments. The filaments are divided in the spinning column into at least two groups and the two groups of filaments are subjected to different heat conditions, recombined, and taken up as a fully drawn yarn. The high spinning speed and differential heat treatment are selected to produce highly spin oriented yarn of relatively high spun birefringence with the conditions of spinning speed and heat treatment being controlled to produce a desired shrinkage differential between the two groups of filaments of up to 60 percent.

Abstract: A reliable optical character recognition system substantially insensitive to variations in character stroke size is provided for reading numeric and special characters printed on a document surface in plural fonts of unknown order. More particularly, a character is scanned and its image stored in a two-dimensional mosaic without requiring precise positioning therein, amplitude correlation for video signal quantization, or normalization of character stroke sizes. The image mosaic is scanned by a row-column analyzer to detect primary features of the image including the number of character segments in the rows and columns, the segment length and rightmost segment coordinate for those rows containing only a single segment, and the segment length for those columns having a single segment. Feature decision logic analyzes the primary features to form a set of secondary features based upon the occurrence and order of the primary features.