ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,319, issued on July 29, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Fire control mechanism" was invented by Samuel James Farmer (Superior, Colo.), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.), Boramy Seang (Denver), Samuel Jebsen (Superior, Colo.), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.), Katherine Joanne Lund (Westminster, Colo.) and Joseph Ray Wilding (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for a fire control mechanism that is implementable in a gun. The fire control mechanism is operable to cause projectiles to be fired by the gun. The gun may include a t...