ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,264, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to LEADSONLINE LLC (Plano, Texas).
"Method and system for determining a similarity or distance measure between ballistic specimens" was invented by Danny Roberge (St-Bruno, Canada), Alain Beauchamp (Montreal) and Serge Levesque (Lachine, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are described methods and system for determining a similarity or distance measure between a first ballistic specimen and a second ballistic specimen. The method comprises acquiring topographic data from the first ballistic specimen and the second ballistic specimen of at least one region of interest; computing from the t...