ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,043, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FN HERSTAL S.A. (Herstal, Belgium).
"Device for disassembling a firearm" was invented by Laurent Balhan (Mormont, Belgium) and Dorian Delvaux (Vivegnis, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns a pistol having an anti-disassembly protection device, which includes a disassembly key arranged rotatably in a frame, and which can be manually turned between an angular locking position and an angular disassembly position, and which disassembly key may occupy a transverse resting position and a transverse rotation position. The disassembly key has blocking means that cooperate with...