ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,679, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to 2360216 ONTARIO INC. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Flexible latch for trigger device" was invented by Mats Lipowski (Mississauga, Canada) and Jonathan Hensel (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trigger device is described comprising a string hook, a trigger, a sear, and a flexible latch. The string hook is configured to retain a bowstring. The sear is coupled to the trigger and configured to release the string hook in response to actuation of the trigger. A flexible latch is coupled between the string hook and the sear. The flexible latch has a flexure design configured to flex in r...