ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,609, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Systems for managing an energy store at a gun" was invented by Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.), Samuel James Farmer (Broomfield, Colo.), Sara Elizabeth Falcone (Lafayette, Colo.) and Bryan Edward Rogers (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for managing an energy store at a gun. The gun may include an energy store management system for securing an energy store, such as a battery pack, within a cavity of the gun. The energy store management system may include a dense brace locate...