ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,729, issued on March 24, was assigned to DEER MANAGMENT SYSTEMS LLC (Caledonia, Calif.).

"Method and system for a trail camera with modular Fresnel lenses" was invented by Benjamin Stern (Holmen, Wis.), Garrison Peel (Caledonia, Minn.) and Jeff Peel (Decorah, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cellular trail camera system is disclosed and includes a housing; a mounting bracket for mounting the camera; a visible sensor; an infrared sensor; and a plurality of Fresnel lenses each operable to be individually mounted to or with the infrared sensor and to focus infrared light to the infrared sensor from a different direction. One of th...