ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,797, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Telescopes" was invented by Ian Robert Parry (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescope including an optical alignment system. The telescope has a light collecting aperture, an imaging region for an imaging sensor, and comprises a plurality of optical elements between the light collecting aperture and the imaging region. The optical alignment system comprises a diffraction pattern on a surface of one of the optical elements, a light source to illuminate the diffraction pattern, and a metrology system to receive dif...