US Patent Issued to SMART SHOOTER on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for restricting a firearm to less lethal shooting" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,785, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SMART SHOOTER LTD (Yagur, Israel).

"Systems and methods for restricting a firearm to less lethal shooting" was invented by Hagai Krupnik (Nofit, Israel), Avshalom Ehrlich (Ramat Hashofet, Israel), Yevgeni Megel (Haifa, Israel) and Shir Ahuvia Pick (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for restricting a firearm to less lethal shooting includes an image sensor, at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to cause the performance of the following steps: processing images to detect potential targets within a scene...