ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,570, issued on April 14.

"Tactical laser defense system" was invented by Johnny Jones (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactical laser defense system includes one or more tactical lasers configured to emit one or more respective laser beams at a particular target; one or more other tactical devices comprising at least one of: (i) a camera to capture images and/or video of an area surrounding the tactical laser defense system, (ii) a light source for illuminating the area surrounding the tactical laser defense system, (iii) a microphone for capturing audio information from the area surrounding the tactical laser defense sy...