US Patent Issued to Crimson Trace on March 18 for "Firearm accessory mounting structure" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,333, issued on March 18, was assigned to Crimson Trace Corp. (Columbia, Mo.).

"Firearm accessory mounting structure" was invented by William A. Planck (Columbia, Mo.), Tim Meissen (Columbia, Mo.), Michael Cottrell (Ashland, Mo.), Ryan Donahue (Columbia, Mo.), John Oller (Columbia, Mo.) and James Tayon (Moberly, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firearm accessory and associated components and methods. The firearm can be a firearm sight, such as a red dot type sight. The firearm accessory includes a base configured to mount to at least first and second different mounting adaptors to permit selective mounting of the firearm accessor...