ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,948, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to EOTech LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).
"Aiming device for firearm" was invented by Aaron Hampton (Columbus, Ga.), Pyeongan Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Brian Socha (Dearborn, Mich.) and Conor Eckler (New Hudson, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aiming device for a firearm comprising a housing and a near infrared illuminator. The near infrared illuminator is positioned in the housing and is configured to output near infrared light with adjustable beam divergence to provide a field of illumination that is adjustable. The near infrared illuminator includes a divergence adjustment input positioned on ...