ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,141, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA S.P.A. (Gardone Val Trompia, Italy).

"Method and system for estimating the position of the point of impact between a clay target released from a launching machine and a shot fired from the shotgun, choke selection based on said estimate" was invented by Giacomo Ziliani (Gardone Val Trompia, Italy), Stefano Morzenti (Gardone Val Trompia, Italy) and Riccardo Zanardelli (Gardone Val Trompia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a choke from among a plurality of chokes to be applied to a barrel of a shotgun during a skeet shooting session is pro...