US Patent Issued to Marsupial Holdings on April 7 for "Aiming device with a diffractive optical element and reflective image combiner" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,265, issued on April 7, was assigned to Marsupial Holdings Inc. (Waitsfield, Vt.).

"Aiming device with a diffractive optical element and reflective image combiner" was invented by William P. Parker (Waitsfield, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffractive optic reflex sight (DORS) is provided for aiming devices in which a virtual image, such as a reticle, is produced and appears in the distance of a user's view when looking through the reflex sight. A light source illuminates a diffractive optical element (DOE) that includes a modulation pattern that generates a patterned illuminations corresponding with the virtual image. A refl...