ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,042, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to S-BEAM PRECISION PRODUCTS Ltd. (Zhongshan, China).

"Mechanical magazine" was invented by Dingxiang Yuan (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical magazine, including a casing and a mechanical driver. The casing includes an ammunition inlet, an ammunition outlet, and an ammunition passage extending from the ammunition inlet to the ammunition outlet. The mechanical driver is disposed on one side of the casing and is configured to drive ammunition pills to move from the ammunition inlet to the ammunition outlet. The mechanical driver includes a rotation disc and an energy storage...