ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,207, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EIGHT HOLDINGS LLC (Coeur D'Alene, Idaho).

"Detachable ammunition magazine" was invented by Teodor Puha (Coeur D'Alene, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ammunition magazine for a firearm includes a magazine body defining an interior space in which a plurality of cartridges is receivable, a follower in the interior space configured to bias the cartridges toward an upper end of the magazine body, and a catch on the magazine body configured to hold a topmost cartridge received in the interior space in a substantially horizontal position within the upper end of the magazine body until an a...