ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,701, issued on March 4, was assigned to Armaments Research Co. Inc. (Chevy Chase, Md.).
"Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring using neural network analysis" was invented by John Asbach (Grand Island, N.Y.) and Michael Canty (Bethesda, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a discharge event of a firearm is provided. An event detection module receives (i) acceleration input signals including a first acceleration input signal along a first axis, a second acceleration input signal along a second axis and a third acceleration input signal along a third axis; and (ii) rotation in...