IP Library Granted Patent US 12,339,101
Granted Patent B2
US 12,339,101 · App. 17/699,258 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Device to capture pressure data from a weapon's foregrip during live fire

Inventors: Rocco Portoghese (Winter Park, FL); Matthew Lankford (Merritt Island, FL)
F41G3/26F41C23/16F41G11/003
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,339,101
App. No.
17/699,258
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device to capture pressure data from a weapon's foregrip during live fire, the weapon having a Picatinny accessory rail, the device comprising a plurality of sensor bodies that are mountable to the Picatinny accessory rail, each sensor body having a pressure sensitive region that can capture pressure data placed on the pressure sensitive region, each sensor body having channels that correspond to the Picatinny accessory rail, retention latch system that attaches the sensor body to the weapon; and, a communication assembly that allows data communication between the plurality of sensor bodies and a computer.

Claims (5)

1. A device to capture pressure data from a weapon's foregrip during live fire, the weapon having a Picatinny accessory rail, the device comprising:

a plurality of sensor bodies that are mountable to the Picatinny accessory rail, each sensor body having a pressure sensitive region that can capture pressure data placed on the pressure sensitive region, each sensor body having

channels that correspond to the Picatinny accessory rail,

a retention latch system that attaches the sensor body to the weapon; and,

a communication assembly that allows data communication between the plurality of sensor bodies and a computer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 21, 2022
From: PORTOGHESE, ROCCO; LANKFORD, MATTHEW
To: DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230296353A1 · Sep 21, 2023
References Cited (1)
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