US Patent Issued to Federal Cartridge on July 8 for "Reduced stiffness barrel fired projectile" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,545, issued on July 8, was assigned to Federal Cartridge Co. (Anoka, Minn.).

"Reduced stiffness barrel fired projectile" was invented by Bryan P. Peterson (Isanti, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a projectile includes a projectile body including a tail portion, a nose portion, a barrel engaging portion between the nose portion and the tail portion, and a metal jacket that defines an exterior of the projectile that surrounds an interior solid core. In one or more embodiments the projectile includes one or more circumferential grooves defined in the interior core portion, each of the one or more circumferent...