ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,071, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IMI Defense LTD (Ein Ayala, Israel).
"Magazine with embedded metal insert" was invented by Nisim Zusman (Ein Ayala, Israel) and Slava Krupenin (Ein Ayala, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magazine may include a body comprising a magazine catch, and an insert in which the insert may be positioned on an upper portion of an interior of the body, the insert may include a magazine catch extension, the magazine catch extension may bend outward away from the body to reinforce the magazine catch, and the insert may be formed of a metal, an alloy, or combinations thereof."
The patent was filed on ...