ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,038, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Biofire Technologies Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Docking station for an electromechanical gun" was invented by Bryan Edward Rogers (Aurora, Colo.), Kai Thorin Kloepfer (Denver), Jack Hugo Thiesen (Firestone, Colo.), Christopher James Owens (Denver), Benjamin William Dwyer (Golden, Colo.), William Ward (Denver) and Jules Woolf Kramer (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides system and techniques that allow a device to be coupled with an electromechanical gun. The electromechanical gun may be physically coupled with a cradle of the device, and the electromechanical ...