ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,704, issued on Nov. 11.

"Smart-gun artificial intelligence systems and methods" was invented by John Hafen (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of a smart-gun system that includes obtaining a set of smart-gun data, determining one or more states of a smart-gun based at least in part on the set of smart-gun data, determining one or more states of a user based at least in part on the set of smart-gun data, determining to generate a conversation statement based at least in part on the one or more states of the smart-gun and the one or more states of the user, and presenting a conversation stat...