ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,357, issued on May 27, was assigned to Agency Arms LLC (Caldwell, Idaho).
"Flexible hinge based trigger for a firearm" was invented by Matt Botke (Caldwell, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism using flexure hinges as part of the trigger and/or safety mechanism of a firearm. Flexure hinges provide relative motion between two stiff members by the elastic deformation of an arbitrarily shaped flexible connector often implemented in metallic and composite materials. The flexure hinges are formed by flexure links connecting two stiff members. The flexure links connect various parts of the trigger assembly, such as a trigger co...