US Patent Issued to Biofire Technologies on March 17 for "Systems and techniques for identifying gun events" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,158, issued on March 17, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Systems and techniques for identifying gun events" was invented by Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.) and Christopher James Owens (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for identifying gun events. A gun event may include a nominal event, such as the discharging of a projectile or the ejecting of a cartridge shell, or an anomalous event, such as a misfire or a failure to feed. An apparatus may include a sensor that measur...