US Patent Issued to Safariland on Oct. 6 for "Holster tensioner device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,991, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Safariland LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Holster tensioner device" was invented by Matthew E. McKendrick (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Robert DeRenzo (Saint Johns, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holster for a handgun assembly includes a holster body having a chamber for receiving the handgun assembly. A tensioner is mounted on the holster body in a position to be engaged by the handgun assembly in the chamber, and is operable to apply a resilient biasing force to the handgun assembly in the chamber. The tensioner includes tensioner body that is engaged and deformed by the handgun assembly, and a s...