ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,886, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EOTech LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Enhanced vision systems and methods" was invented by Jon Burnsed (Tempe, Ariz.), Stephen Styonavich (Tempe, Ariz.) and Michael Iosue (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced vision system includes a first optic subsystem and a transparent photodetector subsystem disposed within a common housing. The first optic subsystem may include passive devices such as simple or compound lenses, active devices such as low-light enhancing image intensifiers, or a combination of passive and active devices. The transparent photodetector subsystem receives the visi...