US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Sept. 9 for "Additive manufacturing enhanced sidearm" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,981, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Additive manufacturing enhanced sidearm" was invented by Alan Kalb (Beachwood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additive manufactured enhanced sidearm comprising an ejectable barrel group assembly having two barrels, each with a chamber, in an under and over configuration thereby forming a top and bottom, and preloaded with keyed rounds having a series wherein each of said projectiles is keyed via a keyway in a chamber in said barrel, each of said projectiles in said barrel group are keyed having 0 to...