US Patent Issued to GLOCK TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Recoil spring abutment for a slide of a modular handgun" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,826, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Ferlach, Austria).

"Recoil spring abutment for a slide of a modular handgun" was invented by Josef Kroyer (Zemendorf, Austria) and Alfred Urban (Bad Voslau, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recoil spring abutment for a slide of a pistol, the slide including slide grooves on both sides, and the recoil spring abutment being designed to be insertable and mountable in the slide and includes a preferably essentially semi-cylindrical base body having at least partially continuous guide rails on both sides, and an essentially circular step on a rear side for accommodatin...