US Patent Issued to Armaments Research on Oct. 14 for "Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring based on multiple sensor authentication" (New York, Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,607, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Armaments Research Co. Inc. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Weapon usage monitoring system having discharge event monitoring based on multiple sensor authentication" was invented by John Asbach (Grand Island, N.Y.), Jeff O'Dell (Ashburn, Va.), Abraham Rozental (Laurel, Md.) and Michael Canty (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing discharge monitoring of a firearm includes a first sensor, a second sensor and an event detection module. The first sensor is disposed on the firearm that senses a first acceleration along a first axis and sends a first input signal. The second sensor i...