ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,354, issued on July 21, was assigned to FRANKLIN ARMORY HOLDINGS INC. (Minden, Nev.).

"Bolt action firearm" was invented by Jay Leonard Jacobson (Minden, Nev.), Kyle Ketten (Minden, Nev.) and Grant Vaughan (Minden, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bolt action firearm has an ejector element movable between a forward position in which a portion of the ejector element protrudes from the bolt face and a rearward position rear of the forward position, an ejector restraint element operable in a restraining position to restrain the ejector element to the rearward position and in a release position to enable movement of the ejector elem...