F41A 17/56
Sear safeties, i.e. means for rendering ineffective an intermediate lever transmitting trigger
Official title: Sear safeties, i.e. means for rendering ineffective an intermediate lever transmitting trigger movement to firing pin, hammer, bolt or sear (F41A17/02 - F41A17/40 take precedence)
F41A17/56 (Sear safeties, i.e. means for rendering ineffective an intermediate lever transmitting trigger) appears on 219 US grants and 171 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41A- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 171
- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Mechanism disassembly device for weapons with bolt mechanism1 Sep 2026US 12,723,828 B2
- Trigger device11 Aug 2026US 12,704,338 B22360216 Ontario, Inc.
- Sear assembly for weapons11 Aug 2026US 12,704,339 B2Rade TecnologíAS, S.L.
- Safing sector and method of use14 Jul 2026US 12,680,774 B2TMP Weapons, LLC
- Firearm operating system2 Jun 2026US 12,644,661 B2
- Linear trigger bolt action firearm8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309444 A1Polaris Capital Corporation
- Safety disassembly lever1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298567 A1HS Produkt D.O.O.
- Manual safety1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298570 A1HS Produkt D.O.O.
- Self-contained fire control unit for striker-fired firearms10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266570 A1
- Mechanism disassembly device for weapons with bolt mechanism25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177336 A1Ata Silah Sanayi Anonim Sirketi
Most cited
By later US patents
- Firearm safety and control system136US 6,412,207 B12002
- Sear buffer72US 4,416,186 AChartered Industries of Singapore Private Limited · 1983
- Sear and step trigger assembly having a secondary sear block59US 6,553,706 B12003
- Self-engaging safety54US 5,090,147 A1992
- Safety device for semiautomatic pistol53US 5,267,407 AForjas Taurus S.A. · 1993