US Patent Issued to Elite Tactical Systems Group on Oct. 28 for "Firearm magazine with molded seam" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,130, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Elite Tactical Systems Group LLC (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

"Firearm magazine with molded seam" was invented by George E. Loveday IV (Lenior City, Tenn.), Nathan Dudney (Nashville, Tenn.), Mark Hillis (Manchester, Tenn.), Evan Dungan (Christiana, Tenn.) and Joel Stanley (Smyrna, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firearm magazine having a body constructed by a two-stage process. First, a fabrication stage shapes a sheet material into a substantially tubular magazine body with a joint having one or more retainers formed along the mating ends. Second, a molding stage joins the mating edges using a pla...