ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,368, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meggitt Defense Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Storage and loading system for large caliber ammunition" was invented by Dino Yu (Irvine, Calif.) and Derek Q. Young (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magazine for large ammunition includes a plurality of ammunition holders, with each ammunition holder being configured to operatively interface with a single round of ammunition. Each ammunition holder comprises an outer body, and an inner body configured to interface with the single round of ammunition. The inner body is transitional relative to the outer body between a first po...