ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,040, issued on March 3, was assigned to Staccato 2011 LLC (Florence, Texas).
"Firearm" was invented by David J. Dawson Jr. (Florence, Texas), Dustin Turner (Georgetown, Texas), Jeffery Hildner (Belton, Texas), Christopher Schirmer (Georgetown, Texas), Paul Smith (Bozeman, Mont.), Nathan Horvath (Austin, Texas), Anthony Clark II (Round Rock, Texas) and Cullen Fravel (Killeen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firearm with a slide and a frame. The slide has a slide rail. The frame has a frame rail. The frame rail interfaces with the slide rail. The frame rail has a lubrication groove and a debris removal port. The lubrication groo...