F41A 7/08
Drives for externally-powered guns, i.e. drives for moving the breech-block or bolt
Official title: Drives for externally-powered guns, i.e. drives for moving the breech-block or bolt by an external force during automatic firing
F41A7/08 (Drives for externally-powered guns, i.e. drives for moving the breech-block or bolt) appears on 93 US grants and 42 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41A- Granted patents
- 93
- Published applications
- 42
- Assignees
- 25
- Inventors
- 117
- Latest grant
- 9 Sep 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Multiple-barrel firearm and method of use9 Sep 2025US 12,410,982 B2TMP Weapons, LLC
- Machine gun with integrated battery and motor control11 Feb 2025US 12,222,180 B2CHD Holdings, LLC
- Weapon system and breechblock21 Nov 2023US 11,821,704 B2Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
- Full power blow-back gun with crash safety for lightweight application21 Nov 2023US 11,821,705 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Breechblock of a weapon system and weapon system with the breechblock14 Nov 2023US 11,815,325 B2Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
- Rotatable firearm bolt assembly and firearms including the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276342 A1
- Multiple-barrel firearm and method of use26 Jun 2025US 2025/0207882 A1TMP Weapons, LLC
- Rotatable firearm bolt assembly and firearms including the same9 May 2024US 2024/0151497 A1Dewalch Fm, LLC
- Machine gun with integrated battery and motor control23 Nov 2023US 2023/0375294 A1CHD Holdings, LLC
- Minigun with integrated battery and motor control23 Mar 2023US 2023/0092536 A1
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