ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,543, issued on July 8, was assigned to BULLSEYE TARGET SYSTEMS LLC (Sumter, S.C.).

"Moving target trainer" was invented by Aaron Lawrence Edwards (Sumter, S.C.) and Lynn Earl Gooch (Blairsville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for moving a practice target includes a capstan winch assembly including a drive wheel; a target sled; a rope that connects the target sled to the drive wheel in an endless loop, wherein a first end of the rope is connected to a first end of the target sled and a second end of the rope is connected to a second end of the target sled; a sensor configured to detect a location of the sled; a motor confi...