ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,160, issued on March 17, was assigned to VirTra Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).
"High-pressure air magazine" was invented by John B. Kinnard (Mesa, Ariz.), Robert D. Ferris (Tempe, Ariz.), Daniel Sherwood (Tempe, Ariz.), Douglas R. Clark (Phoenix), Zachary J. Wilsterman (Tempe, Ariz.) and Matthew D. Burlend (Tempe, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-pressure air magazine with an outer housing, a high-pressure chamber formed within the outer housing, a fill valve disposed between the high-pressure chamber and a fill port, and an air regulator configured to selectively pass air from the high-pressure chamber to a low-pressure chamber wi...