US 12,215,958 B2
Detecting magazine types using magnets
John Groff, San Francisco, CA (US); Trevor Ryan, Tahoe City, CA (US); Michael Roberts, San Francisco, CA (US); and Magne H Nerheim, Paradise Valley, AZ (US)
Assigned to Axon Enterprise, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by Axon Enterprise, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,549.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/197,603, filed on Jun. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146388 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. F41H 13/00 (2006.01); F41A 17/38 (2006.01)
CPC F41H 13/0012 (2013.01) [F41A 17/38 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”), a magazine into a bay of the CEW;
detecting, by the CEW, an indicator magnet having a first respective position on the magazine and a first respective polarity;
performing, by the CEW, a check for one or more magnetic elements responsive to the indicator magnet being detected, the one or more magnetic elements having one or more second respective positions on the magazine and one or more second respective polarities; and
determining, by the CEW and based at least in part on the one or more magnetic elements, a magazine type of the magazine.