US Patent Issued to Wilcox Industries on Feb. 24 for "Weapon system with operator identification" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,395, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Wilcox Industries Corp. (Newington, N.H.).

"Weapon system with operator identification" was invented by James W. Teetzel (Portsmouth, N.H.), Gary M. Lemire (Lee, N.H.) and Roula Assadi (Stratham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weapon system for a firearm includes a processor, the processor having an associated memory, and an optical reader, the optical reader configured to receive operator-identification information and transmit the operator-identification information to the processor."

The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/387,395.

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