US Patent Issued to AXON ENTERPRISE on July 1 for "Payload platform accountability control system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,487, issued on July 1, was assigned to AXON ENTERPRISE INC. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Payload platform accountability control system" was invented by Patrick W. Smith (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Karl U. Schultz (Phoenix), Jenner B. Holden (Phoenix), Austin S. Appel (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Justin K. Powley (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accountability control system may be configured to provide one or more accountability controls to a payload platform. A payload platform may comprise a device configured to deploy a payload. The accountability controls may comprise one or more of an authentication control, an authorization contr...