ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,671, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to EASEBON SERVICES Ltd. (Kwun Tong, Hong Kong).

"Feeding mechanism and method for toy projectile launcher" was invented by Francis See Chong Chia (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toy launcher including a housing, a storage cartridge configured for placement into an opening of the housing, with projectiles within the storage cartridge held in a first orientation, a cocking slide movably attached to the housing between a first position and a second position, a reciprocating frame operatively connected to the cocking slide, a projectile housing pivotably attached to the toy launc...