US Patent Issued to PHOTONIS FRANCE on May 12 for "Night vision device with integrated display" (French, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,360, issued on May 12, was assigned to PHOTONIS FRANCE (Brive, France).

"Night vision device with integrated display" was invented by Pierre-Yves Bony (Brive, France), Nicolas Laurent (Brive, France), Geoffroy Deltel (Merignac, France) and Arend Hiddema (AB Roden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A night vision device includes a binocular body in which is mounted, along an optical axis, an objective lens, a light intensifier tube, a light guide, and an eyepiece lens. The light intensifier tube includes a photocathode, a microchannel wafer, a phosphor screen intended to deliver a night vision image and a light guide having an...