ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,010, issued on June 17, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Weapon slide cover" was invented by Bryan Edward Rogers (Aurora, Colo.), Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver), Donna Kelley (Louisville, Colo.), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.) and Sara Elizabeth Falcone (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques that can be implemented in a gun. The gun may include or be coupled with a slide cover. The slide cover may include a first slide cover recess along a latitudinal axis of the slide cover, the first slide cover recess comprising a first cavity of ...