ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,024, issued on June 17, was assigned to XARPIELABS LLP (Karnataka, India).

"Method and computer program product for displaying virtual shooting targets on interchangeable rifle scope devices" was invented by Sri Karumbati (Bangalore, India), Matt Rooks (Dublin, Ohio) and Anuj Natraj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shooting scopes displaying virtual shooting targets are envisaged. When a virtual shooting target is visualized and shot using the shooting scope attached to a firearm, a pre-programmed computer-based processing element cooperating with the shooting scope determines a theoretical gunshot trajectory based on...