Jun 17, 2025

US12333876 - Techniques for dynamically managing a gun component

The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for dynamically operating a peripheral component of a gun, such as a flashlight, an electronic sight, or a haptic motor. The gun may perform an authentication procedure to identify a user operating the gun, retrieve a configuration file from memory housed in the gun in response to the authentication procedure, and perform a function at the peripheral component based on the configuration file indicating that the function is to be performed for the user. The gun may collect authentication data, such as biometric data or token data, and the gun may identify the user operating the gun based on the authentication data. The user operating the gun may be identified in response to matching the collected authentication data to authentication data stored in the memory, and the gun may determine the function based on the configuration file indicating the function for the user.

Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Bryan Edward Rogers, Christopher James Owens, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Benjamin William Dwyer, Donna Kelley, Timothy Joel Thorson
Filing date: 2024-01-10

The patent describes a method for dynamically managing peripheral components of a firearm, such as status indicators, based on user authentication and configuration files. It includes processes for receiving user input to modify settings, detecting when a user picks up the gun, and illuminating the status indicator accordingly.

Claim 1

A method of configuring a gun, the method comprising: receiving, from a user device, a message indicating a default color of a status indicator of the gun, wherein the default color is established based on a status of a toggle button of the user device; modifying, based on the message, a configuration file to indicate that the status indicator is to illuminate with the default color in response to a user picking up the gun; determining that the user has picked up the gun based on an analysis of an output of a sensor of the gun; and illuminating, in response to the determining that the user has pickup up the gun, the status indicator with the default color. receiving, from a user device, a message indicating a default color of a status indicator of the gun, wherein the default color is established based on a status of a toggle button of the user device; modifying, based on the message, a configuration file to indicate that the status indicator is to illuminate with the default color in response to a user picking up the gun; determining that the user has picked up the gun based on an analysis of an output of a sensor of the gun; and illuminating, in response to the determining that the user has pickup up the gun, the status indicator with the default color.

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