US Patent Issued on March 3 for "Accessory for a night vision instrument" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,284, issued on March 3.

"Accessory for a night vision instrument" was invented by David Charles Kerr (New Westminster, Canada), Alireza Moradian (Coquitlam, Canada) and Pavel Sergey Unger (Abbotsford, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory for a night vision instrument, a system comprising the accessory and the night vision instrument, and a method for mitigating overexposure of the night vision instrument to radiation are disclosed. A housing of the accessory holds a diaphragm, actuatably coupled to a dial, in front of an outermost lens of the night vision instrument. The housing and the dial are coupled to each other vi...