US Patent Issued to Hasbro on Oct. 21 for "Pneumatic launching apparatus employing piston and cylinder cam driving pathways and methods" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,228, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hasbro Inc. (Pawtucket, R.I.).

"Pneumatic launching apparatus employing piston and cylinder cam driving pathways and methods" was invented by Robert C Maschin (Johnston, R.I.) and Nicholas Alexander Tino (Seekonk, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Launcher apparatus and methods of a toy projectile blaster piston air compression element and breech bolt having a connected cylinder driving arm, and a piston driving arm at the piston. A cylinder cam pathway track and a piston cam pathway track at a firing mechanism positions a piston cam follower linkage tracking end at the piston cam pathway tr...