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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2020
Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA (US);
Eric G. Gonzalez, Richland, WA (US);
Michael S. Hughes, Richland, WA (US);
Anton S. Sinkov, Richland, WA (US);
James R. Skorpik, Kennewick, WA (US);
Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA (US);
Abstract
Firearm discharge location systems and associated methods are described. According to one aspect, a firearm discharge location system includes a plurality of microphone devices individually configured to receive acoustic signals of a firearm discharge and to generate information regarding the received acoustic signals of the firearm discharge, a locator system configured to identify a plurality of locations of the microphone devices during the generation of the information regarding the received acoustic signals of the firearm discharge by the microphone devices, and processing circuitry configured to use the identified locations of the microphone devices and the information regarding the received acoustic signals of the firearm discharge to identify the location of the firearm discharge.