ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,935, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nedinsco B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).
"Viewing instrument" was invented by Marie Martinus Johannes Cornelis Engels (Reuver, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a viewing instrument (1) for observing the surroundings and aiming at targets in the surroundings of a vehicle, in particular an armored vehicle, comprising an eyepiece unit (2) and an objective unit (3) and comprising an optical waveguide bundle (4), which connects the objective unit (3) and the eyepiece unit (2) to each other, a drive device (5), which moves a lens system (6) of the objective unit (3) alon...