ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,127, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Carl Zeiss AG (Oberkochen, Germany).

"Portable optical observation device" was invented by Thomas Rittmann (Rainau-Buch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable optical observation device is provided. The portable optical observation device includes an optical group which has a plurality of optical elements arranged in distributed fashion along an optical axis, and a housing which surrounds the optical group at least radially around the optical axis. Moreover, the observation device includes at least one electronic assembly and at least one planar battery cell which is shaped against ...