F41C 27/22
Balancing or stabilising arrangements on the gun itself
Official title: Balancing or stabilising arrangements {on the gun itself, e.g. balancing weights}
F41C27/22 (Balancing or stabilising arrangements on the gun itself) appears on 145 US grants and 142 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41C- Granted patents
- 145
- Published applications
- 142
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 156
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Adjustable firearm balance weight system6 May 2025US 12,292,256 B2Cogan Firearms LLC
- Slingshot27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251416 A1
- Prolate Spheroid Butt Stock For Firearm Stabilization2 Apr 2026US 2026/0092758 A1Ideas To Move Forward LLC
- Method and apparatus for providing a module for firearm modification via an existing firing control unit11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377178 A1Black Site, Inc.
- Systems for stabilizing handheld firearms9 Oct 2025US 2025/0314446 A1
- Handgun brace11 Sep 2025US 2025/0283691 A1Gear Head Works, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Convertible ballistic optimizing system74US 5,698,810 ABrowning Arms Company · 1997
- Stabilizing device68US 7,143,986 B12006
- Gun attachment method and apparatus59US 7,194,836 B12007
- Ballistic optimizing system for rifles56US 5,279,200 ABrowning · 1994
- Stabilizer for reducing the effect resulting from firing a firing weapon49US 4,986,018 A1991