US Patent Issued to Eighty-O-Eight Products on July 21 for "Multidirectional trigger mechanism" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,362, issued on July 21, was assigned to Eighty-O-Eight Products LLC (Spokane, Wash.).

"Multidirectional trigger mechanism" was invented by Randy Tyler Watts (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trigger mechanism that, in various examples, may be configured to pivot or rotate in multiple directions, enabling actuation along multiple axes or planes of motion consistent with natural finger movement. For instance, a trigger may be supported or otherwise connected to a host device-such as a firearm, tool, or other manually actuated mechanism-in a manner that permits movement in multiple directions or rotation about multiple ax...