US Patent Issued to GLOCK TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Staked bolt carrier for a firearm" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,827, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GLOCK TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Ferlach, Austria).

"Staked bolt carrier for a firearm" was invented by Matija Avbar (Klagenfurt, Austria), Gerald Schader (Gurnitz, Austria) and Karl Markut (Klagenfurt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bolt carrier assembly for a firearm, including a bolt carrier and a gas key, the gas key having at least one hole along a median plane for receiving a fastening element, and the hole including a bore extending along the hole axis and through a central point and a recess in the upper region. The gas key includes a region of minimal wall thickness, and the gas key is...