US Patent Issued to Laser Aiming Systems on March 18 for "Firearm including electronic components to enhance user experience" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,327, issued on March 18, was assigned to Laser Aiming Systems Corp. (Maple Plain, Minn.).

"Firearm including electronic components to enhance user experience" was invented by Brian Hedeen (Orono, Minn.), Mike Cisewski (Hutchinson, Minn.) and Ethan Mork (Young America, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firearm includes a barrel portion, a slide, and a frame. The frame includes a grip, and the grip includes a magazine chamber and a rear surface adjacent the slide. At least one sensor is carried by the grip, and the at least one sensor adapted to sense a state of the magazine detachably received in the magazine chamber correspondi...