ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,046, issued on Dec. 2.
"Suppressor" was invented by Trifon Ganchev Gidikov (Karlovo, Bulgaria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suppressor comprising a cylindrical housing (1) and a core (2) with radially located disk partitions (3) arranged along it, wherein the thickness of the disk partitions (3) decreases in the direction from the rear to the front of the suppressor, a number of gas openings (4) are provided along the core, a sound-absorbing material is placed in working chambers between two adjacent disk partitions (3), and clamping grooves (6)-offset from each other-are provided in the core (2) yielding a torque to the core when ...