ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,005, issued on June 17, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"User authentication at an electromechanical gun" was invented by Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver), Bryan Edward Rogers (Aurora, Colo.), Donna Kelley (Louisville, Colo.), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.), Timothy Joel Thorson (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Christopher James Owens (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating a user at gun. The gun may include an authentication manager capable of implementing logic, processing signals, or executing instructions. The authentication manager ...