US Patent Issued to Armaments Research on Dec. 2 for "Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring directed toward quick change barrel" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,044, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Armaments Research Co. Inc. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring directed toward quick change barrel" was invented by Jeff O'Dell (Ashburn, Va.) and Michael Canty (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing discharge monitoring of a firearm includes an event detection module, an event detection module housing, and a signal processing module. The event detection module has a sensor that senses an acceleration and generates an acceleration signal. The event detection module housing houses the event detection module. The signal p...