Patent 10907918 was granted and assigned to Smith & Wesson on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An extractor for a semiautomatic firearm has an elongated strap with a hook at one end and a projection at an opposite end. The hook engages the rim of a chambered cartridge and the projection is received within a recess in the slide. A notch in the strap engages a pin in the slide to retain the extractor. One end of a leg is attached to the strap near the hook, the opposite end of the leg engages the slide. The leg acts as a biasing spring to bias the hook into engagement with the cartridge.