US Patent Issued to OA Defense on March 24 for "Firearms with an ambidextrous slide stop and/or relief" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,712, issued on March 24, was assigned to OA Defense LLC (Robbins, N.C.).

"Firearms with an ambidextrous slide stop and/or relief" was invented by Joseph Smathers (Dayton, Nev.) and Todd Powers (Dayton, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application pertains to 1911 style firearms. The firearms can have a relief and/or an ambidextrous slide stop. The firearm frame can have a relief to capture debris. The relief can sit below where the barrel sits once assembled with the frame. The relief can be shaped such that debris that would typically be held in the barrel void would instead fall into the relief. The firearm can have an ambi...