US Patent Issued to Summit Sound Technologies on June 16 for "Firearm noise suppressor construction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,075, issued on June 16, was assigned to Summit Sound Technologies LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Firearm noise suppressor construction" was invented by Karl R. Edminster (Fairhaven, Mass.) and Stephen A. Piche (Taunton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a firearm noise suppressor having a baffle chamber unit with at least one dimpled recess on an outer surface thereof. An identification band with identifying indicia thereon is placed on the baffle chamber unit over the at least one dimpled recess, and an area of the band is deformed into the dimpled recess to prevent the removal of the band without a machining process."

The pa...