ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,705, issued on March 24, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Electromechanical gun" was invented by Donna Kelley (Louisville, Colo.), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.), Katherine Joanne Lund (Westminster, Colo.), Sara Elizabeth Falcone (Lafayette, Colo.), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.) and Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems, devices, and techniques that can be implemented at a gun, such as an electromechanical gun. The gun may include a barrel located within a slide and a cylindrical spring enveloping the barrel. The barrel may be ...