US Patent Issued to ATC Performance on July 14 for "Cartridge of a firearm, cartridge chamber, combination consisting of a lock and cartridge chamber of such a cartridge, and firearm" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,795, issued on July 14, was assigned to ATC Performance GmbH (Tautenhain, Germany).

"Cartridge of a firearm, cartridge chamber, combination consisting of a lock and cartridge chamber of such a cartridge, and firearm" was invented by Robert Zapf (Langenargen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cartridge of a firearm, comprising a cartridge case implemented in the manner of a bottleneck case for receiving a projectile, wherein the cartridge case has an overall length (L3) of 37.50 mm (1.4764") to 40.50 mm (1.5945"), preferably of 38.50 mm (1.5157") to 39.50 mm (1.5551"), particularly preferably of 39.00 m...