US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Hagglunds Aktiebolag on April 21 for "Arrangement for feeding ammunition to a weapon" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,427, issued on April 21, was assigned to BAE Systems Hagglunds Aktiebolag (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden).

"Arrangement for feeding ammunition to a weapon" was invented by Claes Eriksson (Arnasvall, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an arrangement for feeding ammunition to a weapon. The weapon is mounted to an elevation device arranged to allow elevation movement of the weapon about an elevation axis. The arrangement includes a feeding chute connected at one end to the weapon. The feeding chute includes a set of elements assembled together in a stacked configuration. The set of elements is arranged about a shaft configured t...