ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,874, issued on April 22, was assigned to CHD Holdings LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Safing sector assembly for a rotary machine gun" was invented by Kristopher Lee Paulson (Hendersonville, Tenn.) and Matthew Steinhauser (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safing sector assembly includes a safing sector frame securable to a minigun main housing, a top cover hingedly attached to the frame, and a safing gate hingedly attached to the top cover. The frame includes an aft camming portion of an elliptical cam track of the minigun on an underside thereof. The top cover is rotatable, while the frame is secured to the main housing, betwee...