F41J 5/06
Acoustic hit-indicating systems, i.e. detecting of shock waves
Official title: Acoustic hit-indicating systems, i.e. detecting of shock waves (F41J5/056 takes precedence)
F41J5/06 (Acoustic hit-indicating systems, i.e. detecting of shock waves) appears on 86 US grants and 87 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Target for use in firearms training25 Aug 2026US 12,716,696 B2Marathon Robotics Pty Ltd
- System and method for marksmanship training25 Aug 2026US 12,716,697 B1Triumph Systems, Inc.
- Target shooting, gaming, and data acquisition systems, and associated devices and methods25 Aug 2026US 12,716,698 B2Nosler, Inc.
- Compact supersonic projectile tracking14 Jul 2026US 12,680,792 B2Synchrosense Ltd.
- Device, method and vehicle13 Jan 2026US 12,523,447 B2Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH
- Visual-electronic wind indicator technology systems and methods16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202173 A1
- Sport and game device, and rotational apparatus21 May 2026US 2026/0139932 A1
- Marksmanship training system providing performance measurement for variable threat scenarios9 Apr 2026US 2026/0098713 A1
- Target shooting, gaming, and data acquisition systems, and associated devices and methods16 Oct 2025US 2025/0321085 A1Nosler, Inc.
- A three-dimensional location of miss and hit system9 Oct 2025US 2025/0314465 A1Sytrac AB
Most cited
By later US patents
- Target apparatus587US 4,349,728 AAustralasian Training Aids (Pty.) Ltd. · 1982
- System and method for locating a trajectory and a source of a projectile111US 5,781,505 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 1998
- Remote sensing apparatus of supersonic projectile41US 6,109,614 ATardis Systems, Inc. · 2000
- System and method for disambiguating shooter locations35US 7,126,877 B2BBN Technologies Corp. · 2006
- Apparatus and method for measuring and calculating exterior and interior ballistics33US 5,349,853 A1994