ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,364, issued on May 27, was assigned to SIG SAUER INC. (Newington, N.H.).
"Safety mechanism for blowback firearm" was invented by Tyler Rainaud (Nottingham, N.H.) and Jesse D. Cole (Newmarket, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breechblock assembly for a firearm includes a breechblock extending along a central axis and configured to reciprocate along a receiver of the firearm between a recoil position and a battery position. A lever on the breechblock is movable from a blocking position to a non-blocking position in response to the breechblock moving from the recoil position to the battery position. A spring biases the lever to the...