US Patent Issued to SHADOW SYSTEMS on July 14 for "Slide assembly for a firearm" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,770, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHADOW SYSTEMS LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Slide assembly for a firearm" was invented by Anthony Joseph Ribic (Richardson, Texas) and Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide assembly for a firearm can include a slide having a top side, a proximal end, a mounting recess about the top side of the slide, a housing recess about the proximal end of the slide, and a retaining hole intersecting the housing recess; an extractor assembly mounted within the housing recess; and an optic sight positioned at least partially in the mounting recess, the optic sight coupled to ...