ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,638, issued on July 7, was assigned to AXTS INC (Redmond, Ore.).

"Mount assembly for firearm" was invented by Joshua A Underwood (Redmond, Ore.), Anibal Salinas (Redmond, Ore.) and Seth K. Peterson (Redmond, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firearm or firearm retrofit assembly may include a compensation assembly to receive gas expelled from a muzzle of a barrel or an egress in a length of the barrel. The compensation assembly may include one or more gas flow-directing sections to tune the flow of gas through the compensation assembly, which may reduce recoil. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed."

The patent was fil...