US Patent Issued to Sturm Ruger & Co. on April 7 for "Ambidextrous bolt release mechanism for firearm" (Arizona, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,982, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc..

"Ambidextrous bolt release mechanism for firearm" was invented by Reed Matthew Hubbell (Prescott, Ariz.), Benjamin Gerard Hawkins (Sunapee, N.H.) and Frank J. Saunders Jr. (Dunbarton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firearm with ambidextrous bolt release mechanism includes a barrel and a bolt slideably mounted in the receiver for axial movement between forward closed breech position in battery with the barrel and a rearward open breech position. A recoil spring biases the bolt forward. A side-mounted bolt catch lever is configured and operable to selectively hold t...