ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,855, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Couple a Buds LLC (Glen Gardner, N.J.).

"Practice weighted insert for firearm magazine" was invented by Eric Hanson (Glen Gardner, N.J.), Jennifer Hanson (Glen Gardner, N.J.), Michael Finocchiaro (Watchung, N.J.) and James E. O'Shea Jr. (Annandale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighted safety-insert for a magazine of a firearm. The safety-insert includes a body and a slidable portion. The body includes a protrusion extending downwardly from a bottom surface, and a channel extends within each of first and second side walls. A pair of flanges extend outwardly from the side walls, adjacen...