ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,612, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to METHOD DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTS LLC (Pinehurst, Texas).
"Paintball gun barrel system" was invented by Jerod Bushman (Houston) and John Chambers (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods relate to barrel arrangements for use with paintball guns. The barrel arrangement includes an insert that may be tubular and selectable by a user to have an inside bore diameter to provide desired fit with a paintball. An external barrel receives the insert and is attachable to a frame of the paintball gun. An externally mounted resilient band around an outside circumference of the external barre...