US Patent Issued to Glock Technology on Sept. 16 for "Receiver assembly for a handgun" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,460, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Glock Technology GmbH (Austria).

"Receiver assembly for a handgun" was invented by Sebastian Hell (Weikendorf, Austria), Ralph Morgenfurt (Auersthal, Austria) and Juergen Gunsam (Prottes, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver assembly for a handgun. The receiver assembly includes a receiver having a magazine well, a locking device having a locking lever for actuating the locking device, a control block accommodated in the receiver, a trigger pivotable in the receiver and about a trigger axis, a sear bar coupled to the trigger, a locking bar having a guide lug, and a lowering compo...