US Patent Issued to Biofire Technologies on June 3 for "Systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,614, issued on June 3, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun" was invented by Christopher James Owens (Denver), Bryan Edward Rogers (Aurora, Colo.), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.), Donna Kelley (Louisville, Colo.), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.) and Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun. The gun may include a sensor, such as a laser proximity sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor, a load cell, an acceler...