F41A 5/02
Recoil-operated
Official title: recoil-operated
F41A5/02 (Recoil-operated) appears on 245 US grants and 191 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41A- Granted patents
- 245
- Published applications
- 191
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 289
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 4 | 2 |
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| 2005 | 2 | 8 |
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| 2020 | 17 | 8 |
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| 2022 | 5 | 7 |
| 2023 | 11 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 | 10 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 2026 | 5 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- F41A 5/04The barrel being tilted during recoil72
- F41A 5/10Having a movable inertia weight45
- F41A 5/16Having a barrel moving forwardly after the firing of a shot23
- F41A 5/06The barrel being rotated about its longitudinal axis during recoil20
- F41A 5/08Having an accelerator lever acting on the breech-block or bolt during the16
- F41A 5/14Barrel stops, i.e. devices for holding the recoiling barrel in a predetermined9
Recent patents
- Pistol compensator components, systems, and methods19 May 2026US 12,631,411 B2
- Tapered barrel guides for firearms19 May 2026US 12,631,412 B2Eight Holdings LLC
- Automatic firearm with pressure controlled inertia mechanism17 Mar 2026US 12,578,155 B1
- Firearm10 Feb 2026US 12,546,549 B2
- System for delayed blow-back action firearm20 Jan 2026US 12,529,533 B1
- Tapered barrel guides for firearms3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259022 A1Eight Holdings LLC
- Assembly of a barrel, a container/frame and a breech block for self-loading pistols20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243535 A1Ceska Zbrojovka A.S.
- Automatic firearm with pressure controlled inertia mechanism19 Mar 2026US 2026/0078971 A1
- Apparatus and methods for a dual dwell weight for direct gas operated firearms29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029207 A1SureFire, LLC
- System for delayed blow-back action firearm22 Jan 2026US 2026/0022904 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic pistol with counteracting spring control mechanism157US 4,539,889 A1985
- Automatic pistol102US 4,825,744 A1989
- Automatic pistol71US 4,893,546 A1990
- Firearm frame including a firearm barrel and trigger mount control mechanism69US 5,741,996 ASturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. · 1998
- Trigger assembly for a firearm60US 5,050,480 AKniarmco Inc. · 1991