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Article: Patent No. 7,614,333 Issued on Nov. 10, Assigned to Recon/Optical for Rounds Counter (Illinois Inventors)
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- November 11, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- James P. Quinn of Gurnee, Ill., Mark Prichard of Glen Ellyn, Ill., Jason L. Seelye of Saint Charles, Ill., and James T. Dillon of Algonquin, Ill., have developed a rounds counter remotely located from gun. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,614,333 on Nov. 10.
The patent has been assigned to Recon/Optical Inc., Barrington, Ill.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rounds counter for a weapon mount is disclosed. The rounds counter is mounted on the mount in a remote location from the weapon itself, such as to a pedestal supporting a gimbal rotating the weapon mount in azimuth, inside an elevation drive housing, ...