ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,965, issued on May 20, was assigned to RUAG Ammotec GmbH (Furth, Germany).

"Projectile, in particular deformation and/or partial fragmentation projectile, and method for producing a projectile" was invented by Florian Spanner (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a projectile, in particular deformation and/or partial fragmentation bullet, comprising an essentially cylindrical projectile tail, an adjoining bow sided projectile head with an essentially central opening which opens into a cavity that extends axially from the projectile head in the direction of the projectile tail, preferably ...