ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,882, issued on April 22, was assigned to FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA S.P.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"System and method for the management of a clay shooting session" was invented by Giacomo Ziliani (Brescia, Italy) and Riccardo Zanardelli (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a clay shooting session is provided. The system includes hardware and software control means and a user interface operatively connected to the hardware and software control means. The user interface has a lost clay target button, a second barrel shot button, and a no-target button. In the event of pressing the no-target button, the har...