US Patent Issued to GENERAL DYNAMICS ORDNANCE AND TACTICAL SYSTEMS-CANADA on July 29 for "Conversion kit for replacing a barrel on a service weapon with a training barrel to fire reduced energy training rounds" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,321, issued on July 29, was assigned to GENERAL DYNAMICS ORDNANCE AND TACTICAL SYSTEMS-CANADA INC. (Repentigny, Canada).

"Conversion kit for replacing a barrel on a service weapon with a training barrel to fire reduced energy training rounds" was invented by Richard Dion (Saint-Cuthbert, Canada) and Erick Picard (l'assomption, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion kit for installation into weapon to replace the service barrel with a sub-caliber barrel for firing reduced energy training cartridges. The conversion kit includes a barrel sleeve, a barrel support and a collet disposed between in the barrel support for fixedly...