Jul 14, 2026

US12680785 - Compensating for temperature of a barrel in ballistics

An apparatus, system, computer-readable medium, and/or process to measure, sense, or otherwise determine temperature of a gun barrel (e.g., temperature profile) and use that information to generate instructions to adjust aim of the gun before, during, or after (e.g., next shot) shooting the gun. For example, a gun includes several (e.g., 4, 5) temperature sensors within its barrel that measure the temperature profile of a gun barrel after it is shot (e.g., each time it is shot or after several shots); and these sensors provide their measurements to a processing unit (e.g., CPU, GPU) and the processing unit uses these temperature measurements to generate a temperature profile. In at least one embodiment, the temperature profile may then be used to generate one or more predictions and/or instructions for a user.

Assignee: Mannis Operations LLC
Inventors: Jeffrey Citron
Filing date: 2023-10-30

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This patent describes a system that measures the temperature of a gun barrel and uses that data to adjust the aim of the firearm before, during, or after shooting. By incorporating multiple temperature sensors and a processing unit, the system generates a temperature profile to inform aim adjustments based on the barrel’s thermal conditions.

Claim 1

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive an indication that a projectile will be fired; receive a temperature measurement of a barrel that will fire the projectile; identify an adjustment to modify aim of the projectile based, at least in part, on a temperature profile of the barrel when shooting projectiles with the barrel and the temperature measurement; and generate instructions to indicate how to modify the aim of the projectile based on the identified adjustment. receive an indication that a projectile will be fired; receive a temperature measurement of a barrel that will fire the projectile; identify an adjustment to modify aim of the projectile based, at least in part, on a temperature profile of the barrel when shooting projectiles with the barrel and the temperature measurement; and generate instructions to indicate how to modify the aim of the projectile based on the identified adjustment.

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