ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,012, issued on June 17, was assigned to ANCILLA INDUSTRIES LLC (San Marcos, Calif.).
"Gas-operated firearm" was invented by Tyler Wayne Chesus (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas-operated firearm has a frame, a barrel defining a bore having a forward muzzle end and an opposed rear end defining a chamber, a bolt assembly received in the frame and operable to reciprocate between a battery position and a recoil position, the barrel defining a gas aperture communicating with the bore, a gas operating system connected to the frame, having a gas inlet, and operably connected to the bolt assembly to move the bolt assemb...