US Patent Issued to Armaments Research on July 21 for "Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring with zero radio signal emission" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,358, issued on July 21, was assigned to Armaments Research Co. Inc. (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring with zero radio signal emission" 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 and a signal processing module. The event detection module can have at least one sensor that senses an acceleration and generates an acceleration signal. The signal processing module can receive the acceleration signal. The signal processing module can be...