US Patent Issued to RWS on Jan. 20 for "Tool and method for producing a projectile and projectile" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,549, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RWS GmbH (Furth, Germany).

"Tool and method for producing a projectile and projectile" was invented by Stephan Gelfert (Wilhermsdorf, Germany) and Donald Meyer (Groley, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projectile may be formed having a caliber in the range from 4.6 mm to 20 mm for ammunition. The projectile may be a deformation bullet, a partial fragmentation bullet, a partial or full jacket bullet, a hard-core bullet or tracer bullet. The projectile may be formed by cold forming, in particular extrusion, from an intermediate with a tube section of substantially constant wall thickn...