ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,038, issued on March 3, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).
"Electromechanical sear and methods of operating a gun using the same" was invented by Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver), Donna Kelley (Louisville, Colo.), Sara Elizabeth Falcone (Lafayette, Colo.), Katherine Joanne Lund (Westminster, Colo.), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.), Timothy Joel Thorson (Castle Rock, Colo.), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.), Christopher James Owens (Denver), Joseph Ray Wilding (Castle Rock, Colo.), Karl Fredrick Brakora (Spring Lake, Mich.) and John Andrew Tomasik (Golden, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pre...