US Patent Issued to Glock Technology on May 12 for "Slide assembly for a firearm, as well as an indicator for use in the slide assembly, and a firearm comprising the slide assembly, and a method for assembling the slide assembly" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,912, issued on May 12, was assigned to Glock Technology GmbH (Austria).

"Slide assembly for a firearm, as well as an indicator for use in the slide assembly, and a firearm comprising the slide assembly, and a method for assembling the slide assembly" was invented by Thomas Stern (Neubau, Austria) and Clemens Gurtner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a slide assembly (2) for a firearm (1), the slide assembly (2) comprising: a slide (5); a barrel (7) with a cartridge chamber (21); an indicator (23) for indicating whether a cartridge (22) may be loaded in the cartridge chamber (21), wherein the indicator (23...