ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,910, issued on April 21, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Optical system comprising a probe for image sensor detection" was invented by Jonas Hjelmstrom (Lund, Sweden), Ola Hakansson (Lund, Sweden) and Viktor Nordblom (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system comprises a lens system having at least one movable lens; a lens housing having an opening, the lens housing attachable to an image sensor so that the lens, the opening, and the image sensor are arrangeable along an axis with the opening between the lens and the image sensor; a probe extending towards the opening and that is fixed in relation to the...