US Patent Issued to Armaments Research on May 12 for "Weapon usage monitoring system having predictive maintenance and performance metrics" (New York, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,914, issued on May 12, was assigned to Armaments Research Co. Inc. (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Weapon usage monitoring system having predictive maintenance and performance metrics" was invented by John Asbach (Grand Island, N.Y.) and Michael Canty (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initiating a responsive action based on an operational status event of a firearm is provided. The method can include receiving, by an event detection module, acceleration and rotation input signals from an inertial measurement unit configured on the firearm. An occurrence of an operational status event based on the acceleration and rotation...