US Patent Issued to Magpul Industries on Jan. 27 for "Determination of round count by hall switch encoding" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,283, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Magpul Industries Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Determination of round count by hall switch encoding" was invented by Erin Czarnecki (Broomfield, Colo.), Jeffrey Holt (Austin, Texas), Michael Leighton (Broomfield, Colo.), Donald McKelvey (Erie, Colo.), Steven Dunbar (Lafayette, Colo.), Timothy Eric Roberts (Broomfield, Colo.), Nicholas Kielsmeier (Denver) and Eric Chow (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting and displaying a number of rounds in a firearm magazine comprising a maximum number of N rounds. The magazin...